Silk Road Creator Given Life in Prison

The underground area of the Internet known as Silk Road was intended to be a market on the Darknet. Users of Silk Road were able to navigate through its system undetected using the program Tor––a service that allows anyone to move freely through the net without being traced. Since Silk Road's demise in 2013, the spotlight was placed on its creator Ross Williams Ulbricht. According to authorities, Ulbricht was responsible for the drug and weapons trafficking that went down on his site. They also accused him of being responsible for any murder-for-hire sales that were accessed through Silk Road. Since then, Ulbricht has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Read More »