For years, Silk Road was regarded as an impressively extrajudicial place where people could buy and sell illicit goods outside of the reach of the arm of the law. In the last few months that narrative has unraveled as law enforcement has taken the site down, arrested its alleged founder, and begun charging suspected Silk Road drug vendors. (Forbes has been tracking the busts here.) The latest indictment against Olivia Bolles, a 32-year-old doctor in Delaware, lays out in graphic detail how illusory anonymity via Silk Road was once commerce conducted on the site moved into the real world.
Reported by Forbes.com 4 hours ago.
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