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Re: Recent Court docs show Silk Road and DPR were sunk by a leaky login CAPTCHA
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dankkk
on 06/09/2014, 19:58:00 UTC
Link to the whole declaration of FBI agent that lead the SR investigation http://ia700603.us.archive.org/21/items/gov.uscourts.nysd.422824/gov.uscourts.nysd.422824.57.0.pdf

TL;DR:
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- At that point, Ulbricht was "only" the lead suspect
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I am curious to know how the government made the connection between the servers in Iceland to Ross. It has been previously reported that he used a VPN to connect to SR. I would assume that he did not use his real identity (and likely used fake IDs) to sign up for the hosting service.

One flaw that I have read is the fact that the government says the Ross did not even own the server, but rather leased them from a third party. My understanding of the law is that there is no difference between owing something and being a tenant when it comes to the rules regarding searches.