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764: Nick Bilton | Hunting the Dark Web's Silk Road Kingpin

The Jordan Harbinger Show

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Is There a Good Chance That You Know This Kid Better Than You Know Him?

CNN's John Sutter has written a book about the Silk Road. Ross Alberts built and ran the site for three years before it was shut down in 2011. He says he had access to chat logs, emails from his time on the site. It showed him morphing into someone who wanted to make the world a better place by sanctioning murders of people that have wronged him or could potentially lead to its demise.Sutter: The amount of insight you get into someone's mind is tremendous.

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