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 ...

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 ...

In fact, the forfeiture complaint states that it found evidence that Ulbricht managed to identify the online persona of the person who had somehow hacked the Silk Road and taken the funds—worth ...

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 ...

They also lacked spinnerets (used to make silk) and had segmented abdomens. One of the earliest spider-like fossils, also known as a proto-spider, dates back 380 million years and is called ...

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 ...

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.

Ross Ulbricht, Pardoned Silk Road Founder, to Speak Out in Surprise Documentary (Exclusive) ‘Console Wars’ duo Jonah Tulis and Blake J. Harris have conducted more than 60 hours of interviews ...

Dorine Núñez Ávila, seen with her family, lost her 16-year-old son, Alejandro, in 2012. He overdosed on drugs purchased on Silk Road, a now-defunct online marketplace.