> However, people are concerned that the methods used to find him were not constitutional. However, people are expressing this concern independent of evidence

> However, people are concerned that the methods used to find him were not constitutional. However, people are expressing this concern independent of evidence to support this concern. Even if you're of the school of thought that the FBI has no extra "public authority" power to do their statutory job whatsoever, it's not illegal for anyone to go to the SR website on Tor, and to see what IP addresses the website instructs your web browser to hit in the process. So there's a perfectly reasonable (and likely, IMHO) explanation on the record that supports the FBI position, and against the FBI position, there's only a lot of rather painful wishful thinking (as you say). So I'm not sure how the situation is that different, at least until more substantive evidence against the FBI's claims are presented.