The site, which was shut down in 2013 alongside Ulbricht's arrest, was a notorious marketplace for illegal drugs, among other products.

Let’s back up a bit. Silk Road was a site that Ulbricht created in 2011 on the dark web, a part of the internet that is not accessible through today’s traditional search engines. The site only ...

Warning: Highly hypothetical post to come. Last week, we learned that the Dread Pirate Roberts -- the shadowy figure behind the online drug bazaar Silk Road -- is allegedly a 29-year-old dude ...

Ross Ulbricht was arrested at 29. Now, he's 40. He faces a double life sentence plus 40 years with no possibility of parole for creating the Silk Road, a dark web drug marketplace that facilitated ...

Some security experts say the FBI's explanations for how it obtained the "leaked" IP address for Silk Road's misconfigured server are "impossible" and stink like the truth shouldn't. Legally, the ...

At least that’s the lesson from a young IRS agent, Gary L. Alford, who first uncovered the identity of Silk Road boss Ross Ulbricht using Google searches.. By the middle of 2013, Ulbricht had ...

Nearly ten years ago, the sprawling dark-web drug market known as the Silk Road was torn offline in a law enforcement operation coordinated by the FBI, whose agents arrested the black market's ...

Trump pardons Ross Ulbricht, creator of the Silk Road dark web marketplace. January 21, ... and has gotten close to so-called "techno libertarians," like Tesla CEO Elon Musk.