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Another search showed that Ross Ulbricht was a white male from the suburbs of Texas in his late
twenties. But there was something missing from the profile of this new suspect: Ross Ulbricht had no
computer science background.
Of course, being the first person to ever post about the Silk Road online by no means meant that
this was the man who had created the Amazon of drugs. For all Gary knew, dozens or even hundreds
of people might have already been discussing the site in private chats, or on unsearchable areas of the
Internet, before “Altoid” wrote about it on those forums. But it was enough to add Ross Ulbricht’s
name to a handful of other suspects Gary had been collecting, all people who might be, in some way
or another, involved with the Silk Road.
While he didn’t know it at the time, Gary had just discovered the equivalent of a parking ticket
on the Son of Sam’s car. Except this one was on an obscure post left on a forum on the Internet.