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Now, onto how he got caught...
An agent involved in the investigation ("Agent-1"), found the first few references to SR on the internet from somebody only identified as "altoid", attempting to promote the site in its beginning days, in January of 2011.
In October of the same year, a user also going by the name of "altoid" made a posting on Bitcoin Talk titled "a venture backed Bitcoin startup company", which directed interested users to "rossulbricht at gmail dot com".
That email address is what led to DPR's downfall.
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After identifying "altoid", they started connecting the "DPR" identity to Ulbricht pretty quickly.
Ulbricht's Google+ page and YouTube profile both make multiple references to the a website dubbed the "Mises Institute". DPR's signature on the SR forums contained a link to the Mises Institute.
DPR cited the "Austrian Economic theory" along with the works of Ludwig von Mises and Murray Rothbard, all of which are closesly associated with the Mises Institute.
Server logs show that someone logged onto the SR administration panel from San Fransisco around the same time that Ulbricht was staying in San Fransisco.
Multiple fake IDs were intercepted by U.S. Customs & Border Patrol while on their way to an address which Ulbricht was living at the time. These IDs all carried photos of Ulbricht but had false names and details. This was around the same time that DPR stated in a message that he was acquiring some fake IDs to buy new servers.
When questioned by Homeland Security about the fake IDs, he refused to answer any questions but then stated that anyone could purchase such things using "Silk Road" and "Tor".
The address which Ulbricht was staying at was being rented in cash and he was living with housemates who knew him under a name which corresponded with one of the fake IDs.
He posted on StackOverflow using his real name, inquiring about how to use curl/PHP to grab things off Tor, before quickly changing the name to "frosty" (with a fake email: [email protected])





The worst part is that he FE'd for the hit.


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Uh oh they are busting the distributors now; buyers next

How the feds busted a top Silk Road seller

Silk Road drug busts: 8 more arrested
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Haha so glad I never felt the need to purchase anything using btc.

So we have the parallel construction story, but what of the thousands that do get away with it??

Those guys had half arsed security anyway. I mean, hand-lettering the addresses?? Making it so that its detectable by sniffer dog?? Were they even trying to be covert??
 
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How the feds got to the server.


In the latest filing, however, former FBI agent Christopher Tarbell counters Ulbrichts defense by describing just how he and another FBI agent located the Silk Road server in June of last year without any sophisticated intrusion: Instead, he says, they found a misconfiguration in an element of the Silk Road login page, which revealed its internet protocol (IP) address and thus its physical location.

As they typed miscellaneous strings of characters into the login pages entry fields, Tarbell writes that they noticed an IP address associated with some data returned by the site didnt match any known Tor nodes, the computers that bounce information through Tors anonymity network to obscure its true source. And when they entered that IP address directly into a browser, the Silk Roads CAPTCHA prompt appeared, the garbled-letter image designed to prevent spam bots from entering the site.

This indicated that the Subject IP Address was the IP address of the SR Server, writes Tarbell in his letter, and that it was leaking from the SR Server because the computer code underlying the login interface was not properly configured at the time to work on Tor.

That discovery by the FBI, the prosecuting attorneys in Ulbrichts case argue, means that no illegal spying techniques were needed to pinpoint the worlds largest anonymous bazaar for narcotics. In fact, they write, the evidence revealing its physical location was left in plain sight.

Ulbricht conjures up a bogeymanthe National Security Agency (NSA)which Ulbricht suspects, without any proof whatsoever, was responsible for locating the Silk Road server, in a manner that he simply assumes somehow violated the Fourth Amendment, the 58-page motion reads. The facts are not at all what Ulbricht imagines them to beThe Silk Road server was located not by the NSA but by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), using perfectly lawful means.
 
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