In 2013, Ross Ulbricht was hunted down by the FBI while sitting in a San Francisco library. He was arrested for making half a billion dollars running Silk Road, a “dark web” marketplace for buying and ...

FBI agents found the mastermind behind a black market online bazaar, called the Silk Road, in the science fiction section of a small branch of the San Francisco public library, chatting online. A ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the law, technology and the free flow of information. The attorneys in the Silk Road trial delivered their closing ...

San Francisco – There is a dark side to the Internet, and it can be used for evil as well as for good. A massive online bazaar hawking narcotics, weapons, forgeries, and other illicit items or ...

It's a real-life, high-tech version of "Breaking Bad." An FBI arrest in San Francisco has a backdrop of billions in online drug sales, murder-for-hire plots and a shadowy Internet website far from the ...

Four men have been arrested by the U.K.’s National Crime Agency (NCA) for drug offenses in connection with their involvement in Silk Road, an Internet underground marketplace for drugs and other ...

When federal agents swarmed Silk Road founder Ross William Ulbricht at a public library in San Francisco, the arrest of the alleged kingpin did little to curtail others from selling and buying drugs ...

Another user of the Silk Road online black marketplace has discovered that the service is not quite as anonymous or foolproof as he thought. Charged with drug trafficking, unlicensed gun theft and ...

Ross Ulbricht did some dumb stuff for an Internet criminal kingpin, if FBI allegations are true. Ulbricht was arrested Tuesday at the Glen Park branch of the San Francisco Public Library and charged ...

The largest online narcotics emporium in the world surpassed its most famous competitor, Silk Road, just one year after launching. The site is now the biggest online black market to ever operate on ...

NEW YORK – One of the messages from the Silk Road darknet drug-trafficking trial is that what happens on the Internet almost always stays on the Internet — and can be retrieved. Manhattan federal ...