Silk Road Lawyers Poke Holes in FBI’s Story
Summary: Court documents released this week in the case against alleged Silk Road operator Ross Ulbricht appear to contradict the FBI's claim that it located the hidden site's servers through a CAPTCHA that leaked the true IP address. Researcher Nicholas Weaver of the International Computer Science Institute and UC Berkeley said a seized server configuration file, last modified June 6, shows the server refused all connections except from the local host and the front-end server, and that server logs show the FBI contacted the IP directly and received a PHPMyAdmin configuration page rather than the CAPTCHA.
What you should know: The government's own discovery documents, released only under a court order, show the FBI kept no records of its own access, so the sole account of how the servers were found sits in logs from the seized Silk Road machines.
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