Seems odd. For years Gavin holds out against all the community's SN questions then "regrettably" tells a reporter everything?
Tin foil hat time: It was planned as a way to bring publicity to bitcoin and distract from the negative news.
Not saying I believe this, just throwing it out there.
An early April fools joke from the Bitcoin core developers leading a naive journalist astray?

Would be an awesome PR stunt, but would they really put this man's life in danger as a joke?