Warning: Highly hypothetical post to come. Last week, we learned that the Dread Pirate Roberts -- the shadowy figure behind the online drug bazaar Silk Road -- is allegedly a 29-year-old dude ...

PeretzP/Flickr. The Silk Road, a Web based black market for illegal narcotics, fake documents, hackers-for-hire and other illicit goods, has been shut down by the FBI, and its alleged mastermind ...

Some security experts say the FBI's explanations for how it obtained the "leaked" IP address for Silk Road's misconfigured server are "impossible" and stink like the truth shouldn't. Legally, the ...

But why did he do it? Let’s back up a bit. Silk Road was a site that Ulbricht created in 2011 on the dark web, a part of the internet that is not accessible through today’s traditional search ...

If you ask me, as an archeologist, the foundations of Silk Road can be traced back to the Bronze Age. But the peak of this exchange we date to the medieval period, between the 6th century and the ...