After seeing the headline, I expected to read a bluff by the Australian Federal Police that they can pierce through TOR.
Instead they didn't even do that; which to me implies that they caught this guy through weaknesses in his anonymity that had little to do with the merits of TOR.
As awesome as the TOR network is, you can't send drugs through it, and physical delivery is way more difficult to obfuscate.
When I find a great fishing spot, I always make sure I release a joint statement informing the fish.
Hardly. They got to the people operating accounts on those sites.
On the other hand, Anonymous has actually pulled off something that revealed users on Tor.
another load of crap from another illegitimate "entity" which once was composed of public servants and now full of "officials".
save the bs for the main stream
As another commenter suggested in the article, the government probably found the man because of factors external to TOR, such as the delivery address and the payment processor/information he used.
I don't believe the TOR network was compromised just yet, although I wouldn't test that assertion by buying drugs on it...