Vanity Fair Confidential this week looks at the rise and fall of Silk Road Operator Ross Ulbricht, who went by the pseudonym Dread Pirate Roberts. The famous black-market site was first launched back in January 2011 and quickly became a worldwide center for selling drugs on the dark web. Its founder remained a mystery for months despite high-level investigations into who he was, with him only known in public by his alter-ego. However, in October 2013 the website was finally shut down with the FBI arresting Ulbright on charges of being its operator. During his trial, prosecutors linked the Silk Road […]