[Pitarou]

Rawls’ is an odd case. If the reports are accurate, he seems to have believed that a strong password on his hard drive gave him legal immunity, and didn’t really try to conceal what he was doing.

Nonetheless, a line has been crossed, and cyber-libertarians have been predicting this breach for as long as I can remember. There’s nothing cyber-libertarians love more than a technical solution to state oppression.

[mirimir]

Well, he was using Freenet without obscuring his IP address. That's pretty much not "really try[ing] to conceal what he was doing". But that's what Freenet devs have recommended, crooning of "plausible deniability".