Perhaps, but idk. No opsec would have been good enough to protect against three letter agencies anyway, and he was of the clear opinion that running FOSS -free as in freedom- is just and protected by the 2nd amendment. Being open about it gives it less the smell of illegality, that the other side will often use to sway jury's opinion.

And we don't know maybe he's "complying" with LE requests , is blocking IPs etc. to be on the safe side.

This whole "but you did not even try to stop this" is what is being leveled against TC frontend runners and Samourai.