> Is their site really so sensitive as to make reading with Tor impossible?

Very much so, strange if people here don't understand that, even at the best of times APT's could be discovered down the track by their SO queries, now compare today, with heightened tensions and certain nuclear armed superpowers talking about going to war with each other.

How is this even slightly surprising? SO is vital shit, if you don't agree feel free to null route the site the next time you have a major incident at work :)