Notas del episodio
EP 118 wraps up our three-part Silk Road Blind Read. Silk Road was a secret, dark website that sold drugs like an online eBay, run by a mystery boss called DPR (Dread Pirate Roberts). In this finale, FBI agent Tarbell travels to Iceland to raid a data center and grab Silk Road's hidden server after spotting a leaked IP address.
We yell through DPR's growing fear from his diary, his sloppy security mistakes (like ignoring server alerts), and agent Force's dangerous undercover work as "Nob," whom DPR has grown to trust a bit too much: he starts chatting about murder on forums. The tension peaks as DPR unravels: feds show up at Ross Ulbricht's San Francisco door, Force risks it all in secret talks, and agents rebuild the site to spy inside, revealing DPR's beginner code and $7M yearly earnings.
This episode covers the big arrest: Silk ...