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Episode 291 - The Silk Road: Drugs, Data & The Dread Pirate Roberts

Mar 30, 2023

53:04

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Episode notes

Introduction

2min

The Darknet and the Silk Road

2min

The Darknet, Silk Road, and Bitcoin

2min

How to Use Tor to Browse the Internet Anonymously

3min

The Silk Road: A Drug Marketplace

2min

The Rise and Fall of Silk Road

2min

The Rise and Fall of the Dread Pirate Roberts

2min

Meet the Dread Pirate Roberts

2min

The Dread Pirate Roberts' Personal Wealth

3min

10.

The Dread Pirate Roberts and the Silk Road

2min

11.

The Dread Pirate Roberts and the DEA Raid a House in Salt Lake City

2min

12.

The FBI's Capture of the Silk Road

3min

13.

How Much Does a Kilo of Tripe Diesel Indoor Weed Cost on the Dark Web?

2min

14.

How Much Is a Stolen Credit Card With a Balance of $20,000 on It?

2min

15.

The FBI Found Silk Road Servers in Iceland

2min

16.

The FBI Breaks the Silk Road Law

2min

17.

Gary Alford's Search for Silk Road

2min

18.

Ross All Brick

2min

19.

Ross Ross: A Novelist's Journey to Freedom

3min

20.

Dread Pirate Roberts and the Silk Road

2min

21.

The Dread Pirate Roberts on the Silk Road

2min

22.

Ross Ulbrich's Trial: A Multifaceted Defence

2min

23.

The Dread Pirate Roberts Argument

2min

24.

Ross Ulbrich's Libertarian Ideals

3min

25.

The Silk Road: A Paradigm-Shifting Criminal Innovation

2min

26.

The Dark Web and Drugs

3min

For some, the end of the world's most infamous online marketplace was a major victory in the never ending war on drugs. But for others, the global, multi-agency investigation into the Silk Road set a dangerous precedent for law enforcement – who rifled through the personal data of countless innocent users in their hunt for the elusive online drug-lord/revolutionary: Dread Pirate Roberts.

So prepare for a trip on the Silk Road, and find out how a tax inspector hanging out on a hallucinogenic mushroom forum caught one of the most slippery criminals we’ve ever covered.

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