Oof. It pains me to even read this stuff. I can't even imagine how bad Ross felt while this was being read in court.
On that day, a male and female agent started an argument in San Francisco's Glen Park public library, to get Ulbricht's attention. As soon as Ulbricht was distracted, another agent grabbed the open computer and gave it to Kiernan, who is an FBI computer specialist. Kiernan spent the next three hours doing "triage" on the machine. Without allowing it to go idle, and thus become encrypted, he took photographs, went through the browser history, and ultimately handed it off to another agent who imaged the hard drive
The jury saw spreadsheets of Silk Road finances, Ulbricht's personal tracking of his "net worth," and got just a small glimpse of the years of TorChat chat logs with Silk Road administrators that were on the machine. In those chats, "myself"--the default name for a user of TorChat--made key executive decisions about how to run Silk Road.
There were many decisions that had to be made: promotions and demotions, contests and castigations. The jury saw Silk Road org charts, payroll documents, and daily logs tracking staff activities. They saw Ulbricht's old passport and driver's license, and the scanned IDs of Silk Road admins. Staffers had been promised those IDs would be kept encrypted, and they were--but the encryption was broken down by Kiernan, who found the keys on Ulbricht's machine.
EDIT: So, the good people of /r/bitcoin have actually gone ahead and purchased the transcripts of the entire day. This cost around $1200 out of some guy's pocket, so if you find this interesting/useful please be decent and contribute a few satoshi for the cause. They will probably continue and post these transcripts throughout the trial if they can gather enough donations.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2t6eeu/silk_road_ross_ulbricht_trial_day_5_transcript/
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