Silk Road Scholar

“If alleged Silk Road mastermind Ross Ulbricht had awoken on October 1, 2013 and decided to toss his laptop into the San Francisco Bay, he might still be a free man today.” In Vice, Samuel Oakford explains that a lot of the evidence that the government is using against Ulbricht was found in a diary and a series of notes and screenshots that he kept on his computer. (If he’s like the rest of us, they were probably all contained in a folder called evidence.)

+ Michael Daly: Silk Road mom learns the sad truth about her son.