Does anybody find it ironic that this guy from the TOR project (great work by this guy) uncovers this and we take it at face value that the IP address that this

Does anybody find it ironic that this guy from the TOR project (great work by this guy) uncovers this and we take it at face value that the IP address that this attack appeared to be coming from is the actual attacker? The attacker couldn't possibly have been using a proxy, could he have? </sarcasm>.