I specifically addressed this in the article. The feds located freedom hosting by using an exploit in Firefox which was able to deanonymize users. I don't know enough about the silk road case, but it seems probable that traffic correlation was used in that case.
I agree that things can change in a year, but the essential point that Tor is not cryptographically broken is still true, IMO.
>The feds located freedom hosting by using an exploit in Firefox
That doesn't even make sense. Firefox is client software. How would I locate a hidden service, a server, via an exploit in Firefox? Servers don't generate websites with Firefox.
Tor is not cryptographically broken, I agree. But see my post above about the number of nodes-- it is trivial for any nation-state to spend a small bit of money to completely compromise Tor.
