By Anthony Kimery
Editor-in-Chief of Homeland Security Today
In the November, 2013 edition of Homeland Security Today, we noted that when a propitious misstep by 29-year-old Ross William Ulbricht, proprietor of the estimated $1.2 billion criminal bazaar called the Silk Road was busted by the Feds, it had illuminated a slimy subterranean place secreted deep below the Web where terrorists, narco-traffickers, gun-runners, mercenaries, assassins-for-hire, pedophiles and villains of every lurid ilk were plying their tradecraft in the shadows of this iniquitous digital underworld.
It was a squalid, artfully hidden network of encrypted websites beyond Google, Facebook and stay-at-home online shopping malls, according to the criminal complaint against Ulbricht and the affidavit of FBI Special Agent Christopher Tarbell, who led the investigation of the former physics and engineering student.
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