Government Took My Bitcoins The FBI seized the Silk Road and 26,000 Bitcoins They accuse Ross Ulbricht AKA The Dread Pirate Roberts of being the mastermind

How Do They Seize Bitcoins? And that brings us back to the fifth amendment and forced decryption Only by already knowing the passwords to begin with.

So...They Hacked It The most likely theory is that they hacked the Tor browser. Used an account to follow the IP to the main server. From there to The evil mastermind.

But Silk Runs On Tor The NSA has been de-anonymizing Tor browsers for a while. Tor Browser Bundle Quantum system Fox Acid EgotisticalGiraffe

How Tor Works Node two opens it with its key, and receives a connection to an exit node thus the process repeats. Then node three connects to the servers you wanted to access But there is a snoop point (red dotted line) and certain things are visible. Any information given can be used to implicate you. Every Computer uses three things to browse the web. Operating System Browser Internet Connection Tor programs the browser to create a connection to an entry node. Once the connection is established the node sends a packet back with a key The browser then sends another connection to the node to connect with a middle server. The middle server then sends back to the browser another key. The Tor browser then sends a two layered package to node one Node one opens with its key and gets a pass along command so it passes the package

You Look Lost, Well So Was The NSA

The Big Deal The way the NSA hacks Tor means less privacy These techniques, while often noticeable when abused make people fear for their privacy. Do you want the NSA to be able to control your computer? Openness is all fun until the government goes bad. Think Stalin.

Quotes "EFF will tell you there are many pseudo- legitimate uses for Tor...we're interested as bad people use Tor" “the biggest weakness of the complaint (which is not something that really needs to be answered here, but will need to be answered in court) is how the Silk Road server was discovered. I would suspect that, since it was imaged without being noticed that what happened is the FBI (with a warrant) hacked the site sufficient to discover the site's IP by generating a non-Tor phone-home, and then contacted the country of the hosting provider which then got the server imaged.” Yet since the server imaging didn't involve taking the server down or disrupting service sufficient to spook Mr DPR into taking his bitcoins and running, I suspect that this was some virtual-machine hosting provider. "It will be interesting to see what the authorities do with those assets...Will they sell them through a licensed exchange and will we be able to track the sale?"

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