SAN FRANCISCO — A San Francisco man denies charges that he operated an encrypted website where users could anonymously shop for drugs such as heroin and LSD, his attorney said on Friday. “We deny all ...

The Silk Road, best known for selling illegal drugs, operated as a Tor hidden service that would enable the users to browse it anonymously and securely from 2011 to 2013. Transactions on the site were ...

Ross Ulbricht, formerly known online by the pseudonym "Dread Pirate Roberts" (a nod to the novel "The Princess Bride"), is known today as the founder of the Silk Road marketplace, a former site on the ...

Much has happened since the first Silk Road report that we released a month ago. In mid-July, a Silk Road user was arrested by... The owner and operator of Silk Road, aliased as Dread Pirate Roberts, ...