He credits Silk Road’s creation to another, even more secretive entrepreneur whom he declined to tell me anything about and who may have used the ‘Dread Pirate Roberts’ nom de guerre before ...

Ross Ulbrecht of Austin, Texas, is an Eagle Scout, has a degree in physics and last year gave an interview to StoryCorps that’s still on YouTube. Not the original Dread Pirate Roberts, the ...

Silk Road is back — and so is the Dread Pirate Roberts. A month has passed since federal agents gave the Glen Park library science fiction section the thrill of its life when they swooped in to arrest ...

The first hit was taken out on an individual with the Silk Road user name FriendlyChemist. FriendlyChemist had approached Dread Pirate Roberts online in March 2013 demanding US$500,000 within 72 ...

Ross Ulbricht, also known as "Dread Pirate Roberts," operated the anonymous digital marketplace known as Silk Road between 2011 and 2013, when law enforcement shut the site down and arrested him ...

Ross William Ulbricht was like a lot of people of his generation: he was opinionated, well read, and had a diverse education in the ways of the world.

Ulbricht had affixed Dread Pirate Roberts’ public encryption key to an untold number of Silk Road-related emails and forum posts. A public key allows someone to verify that a message comes from ...

How the FBI tracked down Dread Pirate Roberts. The Silk Road founder's own carelessness led the FBI to his San Francisco home. On Oct 2, 2013 by Patrick Howell O'Neill ...

With the fall of Dread Pirate Roberts and the Silk Road, the denizens of the Deep Web lost the ability to fool themselves into thinking that they are beyond the reach of the law. ...

An FBI agent went undercover in 2012 posing as a drug dealer who wanted to do business on Silk Road. The agent e-mailed "Dread Pirate Roberts," directly seeking help finding a buyer for a kilogram ...

R oss Ulbricht has his freedom. After serving nearly 12 years in federal prison for running a notorious online drugs bazaar, Ulbricht—who went by the name Dread Pirate Roberts when he was a ...

A new anonymous Internet marketplace for illegal drugs debuted on Wednesday, with the same name and appearance as the Silk Road website shut down by U.S. law enforcement authorities a month ago.