Phew! What is that awful smell? Some experts claim there is a stench coming from the 58-page DOJ brief that explains how the FBI found the real IP address of the online drug marketplace Silk Road and then located its alleged operator Ross Ulbricht. While the details might sound like a reasonable explanation to a jury of non-hackers, some security researchers say that technically the explanation “doesn’t make any sense.” And legally, the way the feds allegedly accomplished it was prosecuted as “hacking” by the DOJ in the past.

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