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[AGD]

Somebody of you guys will visit him? Please pass a "good luck" from AGD.
I am pretty sure there will be some entertaining stories coming up in trial. Oh and Kofi Annan wants all drugs to be legalized after 50 years of a sensless drug war

[smokebreaks]

Absolutely nothing in the press. After the arrest, the media have gone 100% dark on the story.

Actually, they haven't been totally dark. Just nothing with regards to this story. I did notice there were some stories floating around Gizmodo that has the USPS and the DEA a little perturbed.

Something about facial and license plate recognition cameras in place at the post offices.

Also saw yesterday that Facebook has been closing down the pages of cannabis businesses and others and has been for the past few weeks.

Strange times we're living in.

[PeacockVapor]

Big sign today at the dispensary about facebook. Guess the younger crowd is flipping out. No idea how to find the menu. Very strange times. They fucking text you daily and guys says he get on facebook every morning first thing so needs it there. I don't do face anything.

[Moustache]

SOURCE: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016 ... -at-large/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Prosecutors say corrupt Silk Road agent has co-conspirators at large

Details remain scarce regarding the second arrest of corrupt Silk Road investigator Shaun Bridges, but in a new court filing, prosecutors insist that the details remain under seal—in part, because they believe he has one or more co-conspirators.

Following the trial and conviction of Silk Road mastermind Ross Ulbricht, two federal agents, Carl Force and Shaun Bridges, were charged with stealing from the Silk Road even while they were investigating it.

Bridges used admin privileges, taken from an arrested Silk Road admin, to steal $800,000 worth of bitcoins from Silk Road drug dealers. He pled guilty last year, and in December he was sentenced to nearly six years in prison.

The massive theft is what led Ulbricht, acting as the "Dread Pirate Roberts," to allegedly commission a "hit" on his former employee. The "hitman" he hired, however, turned out to be an undercover personality operated by Force, a DEA agent.

Bridges has been in custody since his re-arrest on January 28, and sought to unseal the government's evidence so that he could defend himself, as well as get his property back. "[H]e has been denied both his freedom and his property without any showing of wrongdoing by him," Bridges complained.

In their response (PDF) filed today, prosecutors urged the judge to keep it all under seal, since they're still looking into the full extent of Bridges' crimes.

While there isn't much information in the opposition, the government does state its position that Bridges committed "a series of additional crimes, including crimes that took place both before and after the date of the entry of his guilty pleas and sentencing," (emphasis in original).

Prosecutors say evidence of additional crimes was found during a search of Bridges' house just one day before he was scheduled to self-surrender to a federal prison. Among other things, police found a passport card, corporate documents for offshore companies, and documents related to Bridges' wife's attempt to gain citizenship in another country.

"Although Bridges himself is in custody on that underlying case at present, his co-conspirator(s) remain at liberty and thus, disclosure of the details contained in the search warrant could jeopardize the new investigation," prosecutors write in today's filing.

The nature of Bridges' additional crimes are still unclear, but a February 17 filing (PDF) says that investigators became aware of "additional thefts of bitcoins from Secret Service accounts," which the government believes Bridges, "working with others," was involved in.

UNITED STATES’ RESPONSE TO DEFENDANT’S MOTION FOR UNSEALING: http://antilop.cc/sr/files/2016_02_22_B ... motion.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[PeacockVapor]

Fucking amazing.

[smokebreaks]

Fucking amazing.

Best thread on the internet, ever.

[Jane Donut]

More corrupt government players?

How can that be? We were told that those gentlemen in government service were just some rouge outliers.



Oh my, I missed that big clue.

The government spokesman's lips were moving, weren't they? I must have missed that.






What are the odds that Obama will pardon Hilliary so she can run for president?

The gentlemen at the FBI seem a trifle slow to indict her as compared to others charged with similar secret document indiscretions.

[roller24]

SOURCE: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016 ... -at-large/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Prosecutors say corrupt Silk Road agent has co-conspirators at large

Details remain scarce regarding the second arrest of corrupt Silk Road investigator Shaun Bridges, but in a new court filing, prosecutors insist that the details remain under seal—in part, because they believe he has one or more co-conspirators.

Following the trial and conviction of Silk Road mastermind Ross Ulbricht, two federal agents, Carl Force and Shaun Bridges, were charged with stealing from the Silk Road even while they were investigating it.

Bridges used admin privileges, taken from an arrested Silk Road admin, to steal $800,000 worth of bitcoins from Silk Road drug dealers. He pled guilty last year, and in December he was sentenced to nearly six years in prison.

The massive theft is what led Ulbricht, acting as the "Dread Pirate Roberts," to allegedly commission a "hit" on his former employee. The "hitman" he hired, however, turned out to be an undercover personality operated by Force, a DEA agent.

Bridges has been in custody since his re-arrest on January 28, and sought to unseal the government's evidence so that he could defend himself, as well as get his property back. "[H]e has been denied both his freedom and his property without any showing of wrongdoing by him," Bridges complained.

In their response (PDF) filed today, prosecutors urged the judge to keep it all under seal, since they're still looking into the full extent of Bridges' crimes.

While there isn't much information in the opposition, the government does state its position that Bridges committed "a series of additional crimes, including crimes that took place both before and after the date of the entry of his guilty pleas and sentencing," (emphasis in original).

Prosecutors say evidence of additional crimes was found during a search of Bridges' house just one day before he was scheduled to self-surrender to a federal prison. Among other things, police found a passport card, corporate documents for offshore companies, and documents related to Bridges' wife's attempt to gain citizenship in another country.

"Although Bridges himself is in custody on that underlying case at present, his co-conspirator(s) remain at liberty and thus, disclosure of the details contained in the search warrant could jeopardize the new investigation," prosecutors write in today's filing.

The nature of Bridges' additional crimes are still unclear, but a February 17 filing (PDF) says that investigators became aware of "additional thefts of bitcoins from Secret Service accounts," which the government believes Bridges, "working with others," was involved in.

UNITED STATES’ RESPONSE TO DEFENDANT’S MOTION FOR UNSEALING: http://antilop.cc/sr/files/2016_02_22_B ... motion.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Thats a gem of a post.
I'd check the lifestyle of Bridges chain of command associates.
I can't imagine that rogue agents were working independantly of each other.
Most likely their boss.

[AGD]

Question: In the case of Silk Road, “do you assume the NSA was involved in gathering evidence?” @Snowden: “Yes."

[bentech]

A judicial ruling released yesterday in the case of Brian Farrell, an alleged staffer of the defunct Dark Web drug site Silk Road 2, confirmed what many who followed that black market’s downfall have suspected for months: That the FBI was able to bypass the anonymity software Tor—the central tool used by the Silk Road 2 and its buyers and sellers to evade the cops—with information they obtained from a subpoena to Tor-focused security researchers at Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute. In a ruling, judge Richard Jones of the Western District of Seattle wrote that Farrell’s IP address was obtained through a subpoena to Carnegie Mellon while the university researchers were running an experiment on the Tor network designed to show how its anonymous users and servers could be identified.

It proves that FBI agents somehow learned of research intended to be openly shared with a community that would fix the security flaws it exposed, but instead they subpoenaed it to be used in secret to identify and arrest criminal suspects. And they could do it again.



FBI’s Tor Hack Shows the Risk of Subpoenas to Security Researchers

http://www.wired.com/2016/02/fbis-tor-h ... searchers/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;