#340 – Chris Tarbell: FBI Agent Who Took Down Silk Road

Chris Tarbell is a former FBI special agent and cybercrime
investigation specialist who brought down Ross Ulbricht and Silk
Road, and Hector Monsegur (aka Sabu) of LulzSec and Anonymous.
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the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click
the timestamp to jump to that time. (00:00) - Introduction (08:05)
- Silk Road (18:28) - Mass surveillance (22:40) - Operation Onion
Peeler (27:56) - Hacker Avunit (38:45) - Ross Ulbricht and Silk
Road (51:29) - Edward Snowden (53:33) - NSA surveillance (1:05:40)
- Silk Road murders (1:14:26) - Dark web (1:18:28) - Ross
Ulbricht's arrest (1:26:27) - Aaron Swartz (1:29:45) - Donald Trump
and the Mar-a-Lago raid (1:32:50) - Tech companies and censorship
(1:41:49) - War in Ukraine (1:45:47) - Anonymous and LulzSec
(1:55:59) - FBI (1:59:00) - Personal threats (2:04:47) - Hector
Monsegur a.k.a Sabu (2:17:57) - Cyber attack threats against
civilians (2:34:45) - Most secure operating system (2:38:33) -
Cyber war (2:46:28) - Advice for young people (2:51:39) - FBI's
credibility (3:00:10) - Love