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Thanks for this wonderful tool, I'll definitely use it in the future.
FBI basically generated a shit-load of Tor nodes (https://blog.torproject.org/blog/how-to-handle-millions-new-...) for some while to increase their chances of intercepting traffic. Following the data collection and using statistic, they were able to pin-point the origin of most Freedom-hosting request/response, and then raided the place.
Think about it: if you own 9/10 of the node of the Tor network (and they did for a while) and simply analyze all the traffic, it's just a matter of time before you can find what you are looking for.
The second interesting thing is how they planned everything using the Firefox exploit to find out who was going on each Website. I'm pretty sure they got what they were looking for.
Even thought this is highly scary in term of government control, I think we can all learn a lot about it. Also, I'm wondering how much this attack cost.