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Discussion => Silk Road discussion => Topic started by: flwrchlds9 on October 02, 2013, 06:59 pm
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Sad day. Not a hoax or BS. (Ongoing updates made to end of this post)
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ASSUME they have control and have imaged Forum server also. Forum is still up to gather intel, see reactions, and follow chain to backup plans. Possibly. Sort out your business ASAP. Assume will go down at any time. If you send any clear PM's on main site or here with sensitive info it in hands of US FEDS and by proxy foreign services.
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WE NEED ASAP:
Place we can goto to discuss or for update if/when this forum goes down.
(Temporarily added forum section at BMR if needed: http://fec33nz6mhzd54zj.onion/viewforum.php?id=29 )
Archive to be made of this forum ASAP if anyone have access so the knowledge can be brought back later if taken down.
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Like we say many time, they investigate for many months/year before action taken. Investigation seem to lead up to finally get live-image of server on July 23.
July 23,2013 - SR Main servers (or live load balance of) was live-imaged by foreign gov't and given to FBI.
May 24,2013 - July 23,2013 - 1.2 Million PM's were sent and feds have them all in clear text. That is only the period they analyzed for the indictment.
DPR tried to setup murder for hire for the guy threatening to divulge names/addresses awhile back. (FriendlyChemist)
DPR was identified by posting to a clearnet forum in 2011 with his gmail address that was linked to his google+ account with picture and favorite you tube videos that he has posted about here before. Picture matched his linked in profile and included references to SR that be apparent to somebody investigating him.
His posts about economics and links he posted were all included in his google+ profile etc.
It is that simple.
Also in June 2013 seem somebody clearnet signed into SR server from hotspot in San Francisco, CA, USA.
He used his gmail address which was firstrealnamelastrealname@gmail.com to signup at shroomery,
Used his real e-mail to post on stack overflow asking for coding help with PHP and tor.
Had his real picture on all of the profiles connected to gmail, used clearnet IPs to login to google services which they obtained form google.
Posted you tube videos of himself and his friend with plans to move to CA, USA.
Ordered fake ID's which were seized by customs with his real picture. Mentioned SR during 1st contact with border protection re the fake ID's.
Just. WOW. :(
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**UPDATE**
CA Case # 3:13-mj-71218-JCS Filed 10/02/13
Current Attorney : Brandon Michael LeBlanc (Public Defender)
Next Action: 10/04/2013 09:30am (PST) in Courtroom G 15th Floor, San Francisco, CA USA
Bail hearing, lawyer update.
(CLEAR) http://i.imgur.com/IzwO0Xu.png
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Reddit member claiming their BACKUP BTC ADDRESS WORKED JUST NOW. (UNFOUNDED)
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Fed talks about DPR bust to Forbes. *CLEARNET* http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/10/02/end-of-the-silk-road-fbi-busts-the-webs-biggest-anonymous-drug-black-market/
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This post will be updated above this line, post relevant info in this thread. Summarize and update info in 1st post from others also.
KEEP THREAD TO INFO ONLY. Utopian discussion about how they should not do this and other topic not clutter THIS thread please!
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Shroomery.com gave out IP of DPR's post there back in 2011. Either compromised or by request. It was a TOR ip, but if any of you think is smart to post on shroomrey via clearnet.
Notice the important information how they discover servers is not in document. Only the how identify him police work stuff is.
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Does anyone know if they have clear text of every buyer's address in that timeframe? Assume we made every transaction with PGP and never sent addresses over PM, we only used the order page. Do they have access to addresses??
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Does anyone know if they have clear text of every buyer's address in that timeframe? Assume we made every transaction with PGP and never sent addresses over PM, we only used the order page. Do they have access to addresses??
Do not know specific code of SR site, but they have live image of running HD. Assume they have everything. This why always say use GPG.
misread you post. If you use PGP to send address you should be ok. only that vendor has your address not from site dump. If vendor was LE then that is different problem.
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Can someone back up these forums? There's toooooo much information to be lost.
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Archive PGP keys.
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(CLEARNET) http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/10/02/end-of-the-silk-road-fbi-busts-the-webs-biggest-anonymous-drug-black-market/
Got him in a library;
“This is supposed to be some invisible black market bazaar. We made it visible,” says an FBI spokesperson, who asked not to be named. “When you interviewed [Ulbricht], he said he would never be arrested. But no one is beyond the reach of the FBI. We will find you.”
The FBI spokesperson declined to offer details about the investigation, but told me that “basically he made a simple mistake and we were able to identify him.”
End Of The Silk Road: FBI Says It's Busted The Web's Biggest Anonymous Drug Black Market
Ross William Ulbricht, alleged to be the "Dread Pirate Roberts" behind Silk Road's drug black market.
After two and a half years running the booming anonymous narcotics bazaar known as the Silk Road, the drug kingpin who called himself the Dread Pirate Roberts has allegedly been unmasked.
On Wednesday, the FBI announced that they arrested 29-year-old Ross William Ulbricht, the Silk Road’s accused administrator, in the Glen Park branch of the San Francisco Public Library at 3:15 Pacific time on Tuesday. Ulbricht has been charged with engaging in a money laundering and narcotics trafficking conspiracy as well as computer hacking. The Department of Justice has seized the website of the Silk Road’s as well as somewhere between $3.5 to 4 million in bitcoins, the cryptographic currency used to buy drugs on the Silk Road.
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We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
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Report 1st hit that DPR ordered was on former SR employee and paid $80k to an undercover agent.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/blog/bal-silk-road-owner-ross-william-ulbricht-allegedly-tried-to-arrange-witness-murder-in-md-20131002,0,5476223.story
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May 24,2013 - July 23,2013 - 1.2 Million PM's were sent and feds have them all in clear text. That is only the period they analyzed for the indictment.
I can't find any indication in the complaint that the PMs were or are in clear text. Could you tell us on which page this is mentioned?
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Updated OP with case information.
**UPDATE**
CA Case # 3:13-mj-71218-JCS Filed 10/02/13
Current Attorney : Brandon Michael LeBlanc (Public Defender)
Next Action: 10/04/2013 09:30am (PST) in Courtroom G 15th Floor, San Francisco, CA USA
Bail hearing, lawyer update.
I can't find any indication in the complaint that the PMs were or are in clear text. Could you tell us on which page this is mentioned?
It was mentioned more then once, real busy right now but bottom of page 19 and top of 20 indicate they easily can read PM's.
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I can't find any indication in the complaint that the PMs were or are in clear text. Could you tell us on which page this is mentioned?
It was mentioned more then once, real busy right now but bottom of page 19 and top of 20 indicate they easily can read PM's.
Thank you. From that it seems that many PMs were sent in plain text but there's nothing to suggest that "all", or even a high proportion, of the 1.2 million were.
Thank you also for keeping us updated.
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Thank you. From that it seems that many PMs were sent in plain text but there's nothing to suggest that "all", or even a high proportion, of the 1.2 million were.
No we don know but encryption does not seem to be a problem or it would have been stated. They seem to freely reference messages in the complaints. If 90+% didn't use PGP to encrypt the most important thing, their address, good bet higher then 90% of the PM's were clear text.
Don't forget 9:30am PST is Ross bail hearing in the US!
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Hearing rescheduled to 10/9 9:30am PST. Hold in custody until then.
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Here is word from FBI on the 2.600 BTC they seized, the users escrow and wallets basically.
*CLEARNET* http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2013/10/04/fbi-silk-road-bitcoin-seizure/
The 80million $ DPR has they have not been able to get to yet.