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matheusmoreirayesterday at 6:09 PM0 repliesview on HN

Well, yes. They control ISPs and exit nodes, therefore they can correlate entries into and exits out of the Tor network, narrowing down candidate lists until only one user remains. Essentially a nation scale version of the Harvard bomb threat correlation:

https://buttondown.com/grugq/archive/bad-opsec-considered-ha...

As noted in the article, it wasn't the failure of Tor that led to arrest, it was poor OPSEC. Failure to cover, failure to conceal and failure to compartment.