From Adrian Chen’s Gawker long-read about that recent bust of the web’s biggest online illegal drug marketplace: The lesson of the Silk Road takedown isn’t that Ulbricht was sloppy about security.
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The downfall of Silk Road, and with it, the so-called Dark Net
Looks like the government shutdown didn’t stop federal agents from shutting down the most popular “deep web” illegal drug market. In San Francisco, federal prosecutors have indicted Ross William Ulbricht, who is said to be the founder of Silk Road.
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Silk Road ends: Feds arrest ‘Dread Pirate Roberts,’ alleged founder of largest Bitcoin drug market
NOVA’s Tim De Chant posted this awesome photo of the Kilby Solid Circuit, the first working example of a miniaturized electric circuit that combined all the necessary structures onto a single chip.
UK mobile providers, including O2 and its reseller GiffGaff, are blocking commercial VPN providers that help to secure sensitive communications from criminals, hackers and government spies.
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UK censorwall bans VPNs
John Brownlee recalls how a 17th-century fish sauce evolved into a patent medicine, a health hazard, and finally a $3bn industry .
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The history of tomato ketchup
Omni Reboot offers a gallery of sandworms, fremen and the deserts of Arrakis as painted by John Schoenher, who was described by author Frank Herbert as “the only artist who has ever visited Dune.” [Omni Reboot]
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Paintings of Dune