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>Ulbricht’s computer may have been infiltrated—perhaps via the BitTorrent client that was downloading the previous day’s Colbert Report when he was arrested. I
by josu 12y ago
>Ulbricht’s computer may have been infiltrated—perhaps via the BitTorrent client that was downloading the previous day’s Colbert Report when he was arrested.
Is he saying that he was downloading torrent files to the same computer that he was using to run SR? This guy had enough money to use a seedbox, even if he wasn't running the SR why wouldn't he use one? But specially, if he were running the SR, why would he start opening ports like crazy?
Are there any evidence showing that Ulbricht was careful and paranoid about his online activity. Because it is also possible that he thought that he was invincible and started disregarding basic things like those.
- mahyarm 12y agoI think anyone who has the competency to avoid doing bad operational stuff like this probably realizes the horrifying possible consequences of starting something like silk road or even a bitcoin exchange and doesn't start one.
- runjake 12y agoWell said. Smart people tend to avoid getting into a "I have to be lucky every day, they just have to get lucky once" situation -- especially when it involves their life or freedom.
- lione 12y agoNot the computer that was running SR, the computer that he was accessing SR with.
- davidgerard 12y agoEveryone assumed that DPR, whoever he was, must have superlative operational security to keep pulling the stuff he did. When it turns out he didn't at all, he just had a near-invincible shield of narcissism. (Journal of his crimes on the same laptop he was running the site from. Bugger me sideways. That tidbit's the cherry on top of this ludicrous case.)