Torrent Invites! Buy, Trade, Sell Or Find Free Invites, For EVERY Private Tracker! HDBits.org, BTN, PTP, MTV, Empornium, Orpheus, Bibliotik, RED, IPT, TL, PHD etc!



Results 1 to 2 of 2
Like Tree3Likes
  • 2 Post By DGM
  • 1 Post By chinski

Thread: The Silk Road Bust Almost Didn't Happen

  1. #1
    DGMDonor Icon
    DGM is offline
    iLLuSioNist
    DGM's Avatar
    Reputation Points
    77147
    Reputation Power
    100
    Join Date
    Aug 2015
    Posts
    4,744
    Time Online
    204 d 20 h 52 m
    Avg. Time Online
    1 h 33 m
    Mentioned
    969 Post(s)
    Quoted
    453 Post(s)
    Liked
    4014 times
    Feedbacks
    170 (100%)

    The Silk Road Bust Almost Didn't Happen

    The Silk Road Bust Almost Didn't Happen
    If it weren't for one man insisting that the digital evidence trail was worth pursuing, Dread Pirate Roberts would still be free.


    Officials like to boast about taking down Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht (aka Dread Pirate Roberts), but it turns out that they almost didn't get him at all. The New York Times has learned that the Internal Revenue Service's Greg Alford spent months sifting through chat logs and other details to link Ulbricht to the online black market, but the DEA and FBI didn't take the tax investigator's work seriously. If it weren't for his insistence on pursuing the case and reviewing evidence, Ulbricht might still be running the Dark Web service today.

    The details suggest that US law enforcement still has a lot to learn about collaboration, especially in the internet era. On top of downplaying the evidence identifying Ulbricht, the other agencies didn't even relay some of what they knew to the IRS -- Alford could have pieced things together sooner if the bureaus were working together. Some of this stems from institutional biases toward dedicated law enforcement divisions (the IRS is relatively low on the ladder), but it's clear that the government needs to share more data.
    chinski and TheTrader like this.
    DGM Says ! Be Busy Be Happy TI'ian. !

  2. #2
    let it be.
    chinski's Avatar
    Reputation Points
    526097
    Reputation Power
    100
    Join Date
    Aug 2015
    Posts
    9,590
    Time Online
    161 d 13 h 18 m
    Avg. Time Online
    1 h 13 m
    Mentioned
    3072 Post(s)
    Quoted
    862 Post(s)
    Liked
    7670 times
    Feedbacks
    776 (100%)
    Damn, crazy. Those bastards.


Tags for this Thread

Bookmarks

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •