Hint: located on the third floor
Silk Road was independently developed on the Dark Web, the system of routers used to mask user’s identity that requires the Tor browser to access, by UTD alum, Ross Ulbricht, to sell drugs. It grew into a huge trading point for anyone looking to sell and buy drugs, pornography, weapons, or even commission hits on people. Eventually, the FBI caught on and sniffed out Ulbricht’s identity through a careful plot of deception and metadata scraping, and it’s suspected they were assisted by the NSA. Ulbricht was arrested in 2013. His supporters argued that his arrest was proof of the oppressiveness of the state, especially digital. There was also an outcry over the opaque way in which they discovered Ulbricht’s identity, even after all his safeguards.
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