Tuesday, the federal bureau of investigation decided to act on "Dread Pirate Roberts". This individual in question is better known as Ross Ulbricht, the owner of an infamous black-market web site called "Silk Road". This web site, only accessible by a special internet browser called Tor, is a secret drug trafficking web site used to sell hard drugs like crack, heroin, and marijuana. The drugs are purchased by Bitcoin, a currency used specially for online anonymity. When Ross Ulbricht was seized, over 26,000 bitcoins were seized, approximately 3.6 dollars of united states currency. Although little is known on how the FBI gathered enough info to apprehend the man, TOR is allegedly still a safe anonymous web browser.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/10/02/228491496/fbi-arrests-owner-of-black-market-site-silk-road
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