Cybersecurity
Silk Road Mastermind Handed Life in Prison for Drug Bazaar
Silk Road's 'Dread Pirate Roberts' Gets Life Sentence
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The man known as the Dread Pirate Roberts was sentenced to life in prison for running a $214 million online drug bazaar called Silk Road, despite pleas for leniency for the 31-year-old from friends and family who claimed he was naive in creating the website.
Ross William Ulbricht was convicted of conspiracy and drug trafficking through the cyber-bazaar, where anonymous users used bitcoins to buy drugs, hacking tools and fake identification.