The Silk Road hid behind secret software, untraceable money and a pirate's name. Agents made more than a hundred buys and got nowhere. Then an IRS agent searched Google for the site's earliest posts. He found a forum user called altoid, and then altoid's old job ad, which listed an email address with a real first and last name. Years of hiding, undone by one job ad.
Full documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klzRAV0rxT8
Visuals are AI reconstructions.
