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Anonymous ID: 1bdd92 July 23, 2020, 8:43 a.m. No.10055124   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5201 >>5302

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https://uk.news.yahoo.com/fbi-reveals-traced-silk-road-servers-100658818.html

FBI Reveals How It Traced Silk Road Servers

 

The secret of how the FBI pinpointed the servers allegedly used by the notorious Silk Road black market website has apparently been revealed.

 

Ross William Ulbricht, the alleged owner of Silk Road, is charged in the US with drug trafficking, computer hacking and money laundering.

 

But his defence team raised a number of privacy concerns, claiming the National Security Agency (NSA) helped the FBI to track down the servers.

 

The FBI has now filed a rebuttal, saying it was far simpler to crack the site's complex security systems - it simply found the IP address from the Silk Road login page.

 

As "miscellaneous" strings of characters were entered into the login page's entry fields, the FBI noticed an IP address not associated with the anonymous Tor network, which was allegedly used to conceal most of the Silk Road's operations.

 

When the IP address was entered into a browser, the Silk Road's Captcha prompt appeared, the FBI said.

 

The IP address helped trace the server to an Icelandic data centre, and Ulbricht was tracked down last year as a result, and the website shut down.

 

The rebuttal, filed to a New York court on Friday, read: "Ulbricht conjures up a bogeyman - the 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 facts are not at all what Ulbricht imagines them to be… the Silk Road server was located not by the NSA but by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, using perfectly lawful means."

 

A judge will rule later on whether evidence was collected illegally.

 

The Silk Road online hub was notorious for transactions involving illegal drugs and criminal activities, and was shut down last October.

 

Ulbricht denies all of the charges against him.

Anonymous ID: 1bdd92 July 23, 2020, 8:49 a.m. No.10055155   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5177 >>5205

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-53507579/qanon-coronavirus-and-the-conspiracy-cult

 

QAnon, coronavirus and the conspiracy cult

 

A bizarre conspiracy theory has surged in popularity in the US since the pandemic, according to exclusive research seen by the BBC.

 

QAnon and its believers say that Donald Trump is here to save the world from an evil cabal of paedophiles and it’s had a surprising level of interest around the world from Brazil to Germany, the UK and Indonesia.

 

And this week Twitter announced it would delete 7,000 QAnon-related accounts, saying it hoped the action would help to prevent "offline harm".

 

BBC Population Correspondent Stephanie Hegarty has spoken to QAnon followers and their families to find out why this cultish conspiracy has gained so much traction.