Page 26 paragraph 38 (I think) is where it has the first indication of
how they caught him.
Summary:
* The very first mention of the Silk Road was from a user named
"altoid" on a forum
* Someone else named "altoid" on the bitcoin forums advertised for
developers, using an email like firstname.lastname@xxxxxxxxx
It's not clear how the FBI found the hosting server for the Silk Road,
but I'd guess that it's from tracking his purchases.
After having his name, the FBI could find his:
* political beliefs (which matched those of the Silk Road
operator)
* location
* stackoverflow account
On Wed, 2013-10-02 at 15:46 -0400, Ahmed Hassan wrote:
> Go to page 24 here, and read how was caught:
> http://www1.icsi.berkeley.edu/~nweaver/UlbrichtCriminalComplaint.pdf
>
> He was caught because of this post ->
> stackoverflow.com/questions/15445285/how-can-i-connect-to-a-tor-hidden-service-using-curl-in-php
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 3:33 PM, Jake.tarren@xxxxxxxxx <jake.tarren@xxxxxxxxx
> > wrote:
>
> > > Of course, part of what tipped off the Feds was when his fake IDs were
> > intercepted by customs while being mailed from Canada.
> >
> > Where did you read this?
> >
> > On Oct 2, 2013, at 15:29, "Al Billings" <albill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > Of course, part of what tipped off the Feds was when his fake IDs were
> > intercepted by customs while being mailed from Canada.
> > >
> > > â
> > > http://makehacklearn.org
> > >
> > > On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 12:26 PM, Ahmed <ahmed@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > >> http://www.ehackingnews.com/2013/10/silk-road-taken-down-by-fbi.html
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