Not OP, but this site has been around for months at least, maybe a year, it would be sad if it had to taken down right after landing on the front page of HN.
It might be a honeypot for exactly that purpose aswell
What would it lead them to other than the user's VPN ip/Tor exit node?
It might lead to: someone who wasn't careful enough to use one of those options, identifying metadata in the file, etc