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Uh Oh, Silk Road Users Are Starting To Get Arrested
Welp, that settles that. Anybody who was wondering if authorities were going to keep going after the arrest of Silk Road kingpin Ross Ulbricht and start targeting users don’t need to wonder anymore. Multiple arrests have now been made worldwide, and it looks like more are on the way.
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Actually, The Alleged Silk Road Kingpin Hired A Hitman TWICE
There was already a lot of evidence that alleged Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht (a.k.a. Dread Pirate Roberts) was not the world’s greatest guy, and the condemning information just keeps rolling in. Newly surfaced legal documents say that the 29-year-old ordered not one but two hits on former associates.
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FBI Has Been Using Drones To Surveil Americans Since 2006
It’s tempting to write off all this drone hysteria as a problem for people in Afghanistan and Pakistan, but there’s mounting evidence that Americans should be concerned too. A new report from a US federal watchdog agency says that the FBI has been using drones to watch over Americans since 2006.
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The TOR Project Tells Everyone To Stop Using Windows
After startling news that someone — probably a government agency — was exploiting a vulnerability in Firefox to spy on its supposedly anonymous users, the TOR Project is now asking everyone to take a step back and stop using Windows. It’s not just this latest episode of snooping, though. Windows just isn’t a great operating…