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Daily Dashboard | Silk Road Bust Shows Feds Penetrating Deep Internet Anonymity Related reading: OMB to issue government-wide AI risk mitigation directive

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The bust this week of the notorious online entrepreneur Dread Pirate Roberts, now known to be Ross William Ulbricht, a 29-year-old from San Francisco, CA, and the closing of his Silk Road online marketplace for illicit drugs and other sundries, shows U.S. law enforcement is infiltrating ever deeper into the “Deepnet” or “hidden Internet,” writes CSO Online. Silk Road operated on the Tor anonymity network and was used by thousands to get home deliveries of everything from cocaine to fake passports. Because of Tor’s ability to shield IP addresses and online personas, it can be difficult to uncover the identities of those running these kinds of marketplaces that are hidden from the vast majority of Internet users. In this case, it may be that Ulbricht was undone by his use of a Gmail address.
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