I know he has been accused of doing very bad things. I just hate to see Tor and its users vilified like this. Bad people use Tor for bad things, but good people use it for good things too.

And making people feel that simply asking questions about Tor will put them in the same category as hardcore criminals is just wrong. We're not all heartless criminals. In fact, most just want a bit of privacy.

For the record, the reason why his slip up was significant is because:

1) They were able to find code identical to the SO question within the SilkRoad source code

2) They already had circumstantial evidence linking him to the site, this just strengthened it

3) "frosty" is the user/computer name used to generate the private ssh key on SilkRoad's server, further linking him to the site

That's not what is going on here.