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Thomas White reveals himself as a co-founder of Silk Road 2.0 and DDoSecrets.
Just weeks after the NYT profiled Blake Benthall about his Silk Road 2.0 role and post-prison endeavors, 404 Media has identified a co-founder, Thomas White, as its “Dread Pirate Roberts 2.0.”
Between his 2014 arrest and receiving a five-year prison sentence in 2019, White apparently launched DDoSecrets with Emma Best, which was eventually tagged a “criminal hacker group” after publishing the “BlueLeaks.”
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