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CHAPTER FIFTEEN
The FBI Always Gets Its Man
In the science fiction section of the Glen Park branch of the San
Francisco Public Libraryy, not far from his apartment, Ross William Ulbricht
was engaged in an online customer-support chat for the companyy he owned.
At the time—October of 2013—the person on the other end of the Internet
chat thought he was talking to the site’s admin, who went byy the Internet
name of Dread Pirate Roberts, a name taken from the movie The Princess
Bride. Roberts, also known as DPR, was in fact Ross Ulbricht—not onlyy
the admin but also the owner of Silk Road, an online drug emporium, and
as such was the subject of a federal manhunt. 1 Ulbricht frequentlyy used
public Wi-Fi locations such as the libraryy for his work, perhaps under the
mistaken impression that the FBI, should it ever identifyy him as DPR,
would never conduct a raid in a public place. On that dayy, however, the
person with whom Ulbricht was chatting happened to be an undercover FBI
agent.
Running an online drug emporium, in which customers could order
cocaine and heroin and a wide range of designer drugs anonyymouslyy,
required a certain moxie. The site was hosted on the Dark Web (see here)
and was onlyy accessible through Tor. The site onlyy took Bitcoin as payyment.
And the creator of Silk Road had been careful, but not careful enough.
A few months before Ulbricht sat in the San Francisco Public Libraryy
with the FBI circling him, an unlikelyy hero connected with the federal