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Ross Ulbricht, convicted earlier this year of running the Silk Road online black market, has filed an appeal after being sentenced to life in prison last week. Motherboard has posted the notice to the Second Circuit court of appeals, where Ulbricht is seeking to fight both his conviction and sentencing.
Ulbricht was arrested in 2013 after members of law enforcement infiltrated the service — accessible only through the Tor encryption network — and made over 100 drug purchases, gathering evidence about the site’s sellers and operators. This eventually led them to Ulbricht, who accidentally released clues to his identity. The FBI also hacked into the market’s Iceland-hosted servers, giving them access to even more information.
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Ross Ulbricht appeals life sentence for running Silk Road drug market http://www.danieluk.net/news/ross-ulbricht-appeals-life-sentence-for-running-silk-road-drug-market/
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