The FBI has released details from a digital diary belonging to Ross Ulbricht – the man accused of running Silk Road. The diary contains quite a bit of incriminating evidence, as Ulbricht used to write down almost everything.
Evidence discovered in the diary shows that Ulbricht had ordered at least one murder and ordered a hit on four men who had defrauded him. The diary was found on his computer and, ironically, it also contains an escape plan in case the authorities had their eye on Silk Road.
See excerpts from the diary as presented by TNW:
03/28/2013
I am being blackmailed with leaking user information. I spoke to a major distributor (Hells Angels).
03/29/2013
I assigned the blackmailer's hit to the angels
04/01/2013
I learned that the blackmailer was executed
04/04/2013
I fixed the problem with transactions
I fixed the error for determining the refund amount because several suppliers had negative accounts.
Direct connection for Bitcoin instead of using ssh PortForward
I got visual confirmation of the execution of the blackmailers
04/06/2013
I assigned the angels to find tony76
I cleaned the unused libraries on the server
08/04/2013
I sent the payment to the angels for hitting tony76 and his 3 associates
very high load (300 /16), took the site offline, refreshed the main category and pages to be more efficient
Authorities say that although Ulbricht believes the murders took place, there is no proof that they actually took place, and that he was probably tricked into taking the money.
