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#340 – Chris Tarbell: FBI Agent Who Took Down Silk Road
Lex Fridman Podcast
What Was the Process of Bringing Down Hector Montzegor?
Hector Montzegor's VPN dropped during a Fox hack and he says he didn't, he wasn't even hacking. In 10 million lines of logs, there was one IP address that stuck out. Once we had the information of the chat logs and all that from the server, we found the server with the chat log. So the dot onion was running the website, the Silk Road was running on a server in Iceland. How did you figure that out? That's one of the claims that the NSA has said is true.
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