Silk Road, the Illegal Drug Website

How Hacks Happen

English - November 14, 2023 16:00 - 23 minutes - 15.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
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The story of Silk Road, the underground website where you could buy and sell anything, is now part of internet lore. Customers could order everything from pot to meth and have it delivered to their door. Then came fake IDs, unregistered guns, poisons, and murder-for-hire. But wherever there's illegal activity and lots of money, violence isn't far behind. This episode takes you on a very quick tour of the rise and fall of Silk Road, which met its demise in 2013 when founder Ross Ulbricht got caught.

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