<story><title>Meet the Dread Pirate Roberts, the man behind Silk Road</title><url>http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/08/14/meet-the-dread-pirate-roberts-the-man-behind-booming-black-market-drug-website-silk-road/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dobbsbob</author><text>The name Dread Pirate Roberts should&amp;#x27;ve given away the fact the site is supposed to be handed down to different operators if you read&amp;#x2F;watched Princess Bride.&lt;p&gt;This guy is making a fatal mistake of talking to the press. History shows all blackmarket admins like Max Vision go down shortly after press articles come out with interviews. Now he went from guy running a drug site to &amp;quot;subverting the US with propaganda&amp;quot; so the NSA can get involved. Note to future outlaws: resist the temptation to make yourself famous by giving interviews. Just look how they amped the Swartz case after he went to the media&lt;p&gt;Can also now make a pretty good profile of this guy because he talks too much on his own forum and to forbes.</text></comment>
<story><title>Meet the Dread Pirate Roberts, the man behind Silk Road</title><url>http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/08/14/meet-the-dread-pirate-roberts-the-man-behind-booming-black-market-drug-website-silk-road/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dmix</author><text>For those not aware, the Forbes author of this article wrote a book on the history of cypherpunks (including the mailing list) which Dread Pirate Roberts was most likely a part of, or the very least inspired by it&amp;#x27;s members in some way: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/This-Machine-Kills-Secrets-WikiLeakers/dp/0525953205/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;This-Machine-Kills-Secrets-WikiLeakers...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Having interviewed Timothy May, Cryptome founder and Phil Zimmermann is probably how he earned enough reputation to have this interview set up.</text></comment>