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Digital Evidence
Government Exhibit 1002
The conversation covers hiring at Good Wagon Books before turning to Silk Road publicity and requests to keep Ulbricht's involvement secret. Bates explained that he proposed TorChat for secure, private communication rather than continuing over Google Chat.
Also known as (2)
- Chat about Silk Road publicity, secrecy, and switching to TorChat
- March 17, 2011 Google chat about the book business and keeping the site operator's identity secret
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Bates testified that the secrecy requests sought to prevent either man from being publicly associated with Silk Road.