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Tor is not as secure as people think, all you have to do is to be able to analyse traffic on both entry and exit nodes, (or just your ISP and the server). Some companies can do this as they provide services to ISPs and have access to realtime traffic analysis from all over the world.
If a private company can do that, so can any government that can coerce or bribe those companies.
There was an article I read some years ago about a guy who was getting ddosed on his tor hidden service and he contacted someone who manages those companies and they found his hidden service's IP in seconds.