The FBI Finally Says How It ‘Legally’ Pinpointed Silk Road’s Server
by
littlefish
on 06/09/2014, 12:42:25 UTC
As the trial of alleged Silk Road drug market creator Ross Ulbricht approaches, the defense has highlighted the mystery of how law enforcement first located the main Silk Road server in an Icelandic data center, despite the computer being hidden by the formidable anonymity software Tor. Was the FBI tipped off to the servers location by the NSA, who used a secret and possibly illegal Tor-cracking technique?