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Chris Tarbell

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#340 โ€“ Chris Tarbell: FBI Agent Who Took Down Silk Road

It's your telephone number on your computer.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#340 โ€“ Chris Tarbell: FBI Agent Who Took Down Silk Road

So yeah, all computers have, you know, a unique four octet numbers, you know, it's 123.123.123.123.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#340 โ€“ Chris Tarbell: FBI Agent Who Took Down Silk Road

And, you know, the computer uses DNS or domain name services to render that name.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#340 โ€“ Chris Tarbell: FBI Agent Who Took Down Silk Road

So if you were looking for, you know, cnn.com, your computer then translates that to that IP address or that telephone number where it can find that information.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#340 โ€“ Chris Tarbell: FBI Agent Who Took Down Silk Road

It went back and forth.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#340 โ€“ Chris Tarbell: FBI Agent Who Took Down Silk Road

I think there were guns on there, and he tried to police it.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#340 โ€“ Chris Tarbell: FBI Agent Who Took Down Silk Road

You know, he told himself that they're the captain of the boat, so he had to follow his rules.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#340 โ€“ Chris Tarbell: FBI Agent Who Took Down Silk Road

So, you know, I think he took off those posts eventually and moved guns elsewhere.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#340 โ€“ Chris Tarbell: FBI Agent Who Took Down Silk Road

Him alone.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#340 โ€“ Chris Tarbell: FBI Agent Who Took Down Silk Road

He's the captain of the boat.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#340 โ€“ Chris Tarbell: FBI Agent Who Took Down Silk Road

We did get the server and was able to read all of the chat logs that happened.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#340 โ€“ Chris Tarbell: FBI Agent Who Took Down Silk Road

I mean, all the records were there.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#340 โ€“ Chris Tarbell: FBI Agent Who Took Down Silk Road

I don't remember big debates.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#340 โ€“ Chris Tarbell: FBI Agent Who Took Down Silk Road

I mean, there was a clear leadership.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#340 โ€“ Chris Tarbell: FBI Agent Who Took Down Silk Road

And that was the final decision.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#340 โ€“ Chris Tarbell: FBI Agent Who Took Down Silk Road

That was the CEO of Silk Road.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#340 โ€“ Chris Tarbell: FBI Agent Who Took Down Silk Road

So we had arrested a guy named Jeremy Hammond, and he hit himself.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#340 โ€“ Chris Tarbell: FBI Agent Who Took Down Silk Road

He was a hacker, and we arrested him.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#340 โ€“ Chris Tarbell: FBI Agent Who Took Down Silk Road

It was the second time he had been arrested for hacking.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#340 โ€“ Chris Tarbell: FBI Agent Who Took Down Silk Road

He used Tor.