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From The Verge article (http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/15/7553591/silk-road-trial-ross-ulbricht-mt-gox-mark-karpeles http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/15/7553591/s

by t0dd 12y ago

From The Verge article (http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/15/7553591/silk-road-trial-ross-ulbricht-mt-gox-mark-karpeles http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/15/7553591/silk-road-trial-ro...): "One of Karpeles' companies had registered 'Silkroadmarket.org,' leading investigators to consider him as a suspect." Silk Road launched in February 2011: that's the same month Karpeles (or his associate at Mutum Sigilum) registered the domain https://who.is/domain-history/silkroadmarket.org https://who.is/domain-history/silkroadmarket.org

danielweber 12y ago
The most likely explanation is that Karpeles saw someone else do something, and tried to ride its coattails.
- MertsA 12y ago
  He sure did it awful quickly, the site also credited "- Silk Road Staff" at the bottom of the message. Then there's downtime messages from time to time, it seems rather unlikely that MK is DPR but there very well might be something behind this. The domain wasn't registered to John Smith, it was registered in the name of a company that Mark Karpeles owns and pointing to Mark Karpeles name servers.
gweinberg 12y ago
That's really bad reasoning on the part of the investigators. Registering a .org domain name similar to the name of your secret underground site is a stupid and completely pointless thing to do.
- diminoten 12y ago
  They don't have to convince a jury it was Karpeles, just that it may not have been Ulbricht.
- CodeWriter23 12y ago
  And also the kind of mistake someone with poor opsec would make.
- rsynnott 12y ago
  Both Ulbricht and Karpales are known for doing stupid and pointless things, though (hiring fake hitmen with hilarious emails, and writing ssh servers in php, respectively).
canjobear 12y ago
But their argument is that Ulbricht founded Silk Road of his own accord, then handed it to the "real DPR" months later. (Only to have it handed back to him just in time to be arrested!)

by t0dd 12y ago

danielweber 12y ago

The most likely explanation is that Karpeles saw someone else do something, and tried to ride its coattails.

MertsA 12y ago
He sure did it awful quickly, the site also credited "- Silk Road Staff" at the bottom of the message. Then there's downtime messages from time to time, it seems rather unlikely that MK is DPR but there very well might be something behind this. The domain wasn't registered to John Smith, it was registered in the name of a company that Mark Karpeles owns and pointing to Mark Karpeles name servers.

gweinberg 12y ago

That's really bad reasoning on the part of the investigators. Registering a .org domain name similar to the name of your secret underground site is a stupid and completely pointless thing to do.

diminoten 12y ago
They don't have to convince a jury it was Karpeles, just that it may not have been Ulbricht.
CodeWriter23 12y ago
And also the kind of mistake someone with poor opsec would make.
rsynnott 12y ago
Both Ulbricht and Karpales are known for doing stupid and pointless things, though (hiring fake hitmen with hilarious emails, and writing ssh servers in php, respectively).

canjobear 12y ago

But their argument is that Ulbricht founded Silk Road of his own accord, then handed it to the "real DPR" months later. (Only to have it handed back to him just in time to be arrested!)