You know, it's interesting that, as conspiratorial as this community is, they apply a double standard. JFK could not have been shot by a lone nut, it must have been the CIA. 9/11 couldn't be pulled off by 19 guys with box cutters, the US government must have been involved. Even Tormail! I've heard conspiracy theories that Tormail is run by Russian intelligence agencies. Yet these same people believe that some random guy, probably an American comp sci student, started the biggest drug site on the internet. So why don't you believe that DEA/FBI/NSA/MI6 is running this site? There are well known attacks that can deanonymize hidden services, so how is it possible that SR is still up? Mysteriously, there's no conspiracy there. Of course, that's because there is no conspiracy. Sometimes random people do significant things.