Comment by john_strinlai

i believe that case is this one from 2013: https://www.informationweek.com/cyber-resilience/fbi-traces-...

"Reading the criminal complaint, it seems that the FBI got itself a list of Harvard users that accessed the Tor network, and went through them one by one to find the one who sent the threat, [...]"

"The FBI didn't have to break Tor; they just used conventional police mechanisms to get Kim to confess," Schneier wrote. "Tor didn't break; Kim did.""