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#340 – Chris Tarbell: FBI Agent Who Took Down Silk Road

Lex Fridman Podcast

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What Is the Anonymity of the Internet?

Silk Road was created by Ross Albrecht in the wilderness of California and Salinam. It used what's called Tor, the onion router, which is an anonymizing function on the deep web. In cyber crime, you go after one, the IP address and trace it through the network or two,. You go after the cash and this one kind of blocked both.

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