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Tracking the Silk Road mastermind Silk Road 101: How the darknet works. Law enforcement officials shut down Silk Road, a sophisticated black market website offering illegal wares and services from heroin to hit men. The Silk Road website is located in the cyber underworld, also known as the darknet. 1 How do normal networks work? 2 What is Tor? 3 How buying on silk road works. 4 How are Bitcoins tumbled? 5 How was silk road exposed? 6 Silk Road shutdown USA TODAY research Joan Murphy, Tory Hargro, Kevin A. Kepple, Donna Leinwand Leger and Jerry Mosemak, USA TODAY Kevin McCoy, USA TODAY 7:55 p.m. EST January 16, 2015 (Photo: Elizabeth Williams, AP) 62 CONNECT 62 TWEET 6 LINKEDIN 13 COMMENTEMAILMORE NEW YORK – When federal agents arrested Ross William Ulbricht, they announced theyd captured the mastermind behind Silk Road, the Dark Web marketplace that trafficked in millions of dollars in illegal drugs and other illicit transactions. But did they? The question shadows the 15th floor Manhattan federal courtroom where Ulbricht, 30, went on trial this week on charges that could put him behind bars for the rest of his life. The initial prosecution witness told a jury of six women and six men details from two years of computer investigation, undercover work and subterfuge that culminated in Ulbrichts Oct. 2013 arrest inside a San Francisco public library. Jared Der-Yeghiayan, a Transportation Security Administration special investigator, also sketched the inner workings of Silk Road, describing it as a booming eBay of the underworld where more than $200 million in heroin, cocaine, methamphetamines and phony identifications were bought and sold. Additionally, Der-Yeghiayan provided first-hand details of Ulbrichts capture, which prosecutors say produced definitive evidence he was the Dread Pirate Roberts, the nom de Net used by Silk Roads creator and director. Challenging that allegation, defense lawyer Joshua Dratel said Ulbricht launched Silk Road as an economic e