How Did the Feds Identity Dread Pirate Roberts?

Current Berkman People and Projects 2014-10-20

Summary:

Last month, I wrote that the FBI identified Ross W. Ulbricht as the Silk Road's Dread Pirate Roberts through a leaky CAPTCHA. Seems that story doesn't hold water: The FBI claims that it found the Silk Road server by examining plain text Internet traffic to and from the Silk Road CAPTCHA, and that it visited the address using a regular...

Link:

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/10/how_did_the_fed.html

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Tags:

authentication captchas geolocation identification intelligence lies nsa privacy surveillance whistleblowers

Authors:

Bruce Schneier

Date tagged:

10/20/2014, 08:10

Date published:

10/20/2014, 07:19