Another Tor misconfiguration leaked IP info: FBI report discusses how it tracked down Silk Road operator

An FBI report, discussed today on Coindesk, details how agents were able to track down Ross William Ulbricht as operator of the Silk Road marketplace. It is a rebuttal to recent claims by Ulbricht and his lawyer, Joshua Dratel, that evidence was gathered illegally and therefore invalid.

A key point in the rebuttal was that the agents discovered that the Silk Road server's IP address was leaking information from the website due to an “apparent misconfiguration of the user login interface by the site administrator”.

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The Silk Road leak led to the discovery of additional IP addresses not protected by Tor. The report goes on to argue that information was gathered legally without the need for a warrant; that the FBI was authorized to search through Ulbricht's Facebook and e-mail due to probable cause; and that authorities in Iceland were contacted because that's where Silk road's server was located.