The Silk Road, best known for selling illegal drugs, operated as a Tor hidden service that would enable the users to browse it anonymously and securely from 2011 to 2013. Transactions on the site were ...

Well, I wonder what probable cause they had for an affidavit. He's saying he had nothing to do with Silk Road whatsoever, so if the affidavit shows reason to believe he had anything to do with it, ...

SAN FRANCISCO — A San Francisco man denies charges that he operated an encrypted website where users could anonymously shop for drugs such as heroin and LSD, his attorney said on Friday. “We deny all ...

“[Dread Pirate] Roberts isn’t actually the site’s founder, he revealed in our interview. He credits Silk Road’s creation to another, even more secretive entrepreneur whom he declined to tell me ...

Much has happened since the first Silk Road report that we released a month ago. In mid-July, a Silk Road user was arrested by... The owner and operator of Silk Road, aliased as Dread Pirate Roberts, ...