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by bart_spoon 2360 days ago
According to the book "American Kingpin", they had worked their way into the administration staff for the Silk Road, and used the site admin IM chat to ensure that he was using his laptop and actually signed into his account before rushing him in the library.
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Yup. Simple approach that was very effective.
That's pretty impressive.