““In discovery, the Government has declined to provide any information related to its TOR operation,” Samuel E. Landes, the defense attorney working on the case, wrote in a filing published Tuesday.”
The FBI traced a Tor visitor to his grandmother’s house in Riverside, California, down to the pages he read. Prosecutors won’t say how. They even got the defense’s motion asking for details sealed as a “highly sensitive document,” a label meant for material hostile foreign intelligence services would want. In a 2015 case the DOJ let a judge throw out its evidence rather than hand over the exploit. The government would rather lose a conviction than let a court look at its hacking tools.