Federal prosecutors used chat logs and private journals Wednesday to strengthen their case that Ross Ulbricht is Dread Pirate Roberts, the anonymous mastermind who ran the Silk Road online market.Prosecutors introduced computer files in court that appear to show the laptop Ulbricht was using at the time of his arrest was also used to manage the Silk Road during 2011 and 2012. The files appeared to weaken Ulbricht’s contention that he was not involved with the Silk Road during its heyday.Ulbricht was arrested in October 2013, at a library in San Francisco, where he was performing administrative work on the Silk Road website using the Dread Pirate Roberts account used to manage its operations. Law enforcement officers took the site offline the next day.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here