Pretty good article. I'm surprised it took the feds so long to learn his identity and surprised no one in this community caught the error.
Here is the article http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/01/the-incredibly-simple-story-of-how-the-govt-googled-ross-ulbricht/
And here is Ross' fuck up. He posted his real name bitcoin talk forums
His undoing was a plain old Google search, which lead to a posting history where he had his real name, in plain text for all to see, in an email address. And it still took the "best of the best" 2½ years to identify him.
Meanwhile, in other threads, people are worrying about being found out because they didn't tumble their coins.
No further comment. :-\