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Re:Feds say Silk Road suspect’s computer shows he (thought h... by anaphor on Thursday November 21, 2013 @11:05PM (#6779206)
The way I see it there are a few possibilities:

1) He isn't the real DPR

2) He is the real DPR, but he's extremely inept and didn't get caught before due to dumb luck

3) He isn't the original DPR, but an inept person who took over to take the fall for the original DPR

4) He wanted to get caught?

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Re:Feds say Silk Road suspect’s computer shows he (thought h... by nwh on Thursday November 21, 2013 @11:17PM (#6779256)
There's nothing to suggest that anybody apart from him ever ran the site. The screw ups on StackOverflow and Bitcointalk point to him and nobody else. He's just someone who totally didn't prepare for his adversaries, who ultimately didn't need to go to any great lengths to unmask him. I'm surprised nobody in the general public managed to do it, quite honestly.

Just not as clever as he thought he was being, essentially.

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Re:Feds say Silk Road suspect’s computer shows he (thought h... by hmsimha on Friday November 22, 2013 @01:59AM (#6779603)
> The screw ups on StackOverflow and Bitcointalk point to him and nobody else.

Ah, so the original DPR is a true master then :P

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Re:Feds say Silk Road suspect’s computer shows he (thought h... by JshWright on Thursday November 21, 2013 @11:20PM (#6779262)
> 3) He isn't the original DPR, but an inept person who took over to take the fall for the original DPR

The real Roberts has been retired fifteen years and living like a king in Patagonia.

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Re:Feds say Silk Road suspect’s computer shows he (thought h... by benologist on Thursday November 21, 2013 @11:13PM (#6779235)
5) none of us are as smart as we think we are.
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Re:Feds say Silk Road suspect’s computer shows he (thought h... by sliverstorm on Thursday November 21, 2013 @11:23PM (#6779269)
Corollary: The FBI is sharper than we lead ourselves to believe.

(Not to say they are gods among men, but if you believe The Internet, the FBI couldn't sleuth their way out of a wet paper bag)

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Re:Feds say Silk Road suspect’s computer shows he (thought h... by krapp on Thursday November 21, 2013 @11:39PM (#6779319)
The Internet watches too much television.
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Re:Feds say Silk Road suspect’s computer shows he (thought h... by sliverstorm on Thursday November 21, 2013 @11:20PM (#6779261)
didn't get caught before due to dumb luck

There isn't really much "before". The site was only up for about 2.5 years before shutdown, and the FBI started building a case back in, what, May? June?

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Re:Feds say Silk Road suspect’s computer shows he (thought h... by dopamean on Thursday November 21, 2013 @11:13PM (#6779233)
5) Hubris.
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