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Details here: http://jacobappelbaum.net/

There were formal proceedings, the Tor Project organization investigated. It's difficult to involve the police because many of its members are regularly harassed by law enforcement and some are wanted in various countries. It's likely that there is a grand jury investigation in the US into Appelbaum himself for involvement with the Snowden leaks, for example. The victims live in different countries too, although there are some in Germany where Appelbaum currently resides.

http://jacobappelbaum.net/

The website explains their reasoning for not going to a court of law, which was why the TOR foundation hired a private investigator to confirm their veracity.

That's funny, I hired a private investigator and found that they were false.

See my statement there? It holds as much weight as TOR's statement. If they wren't willing to go to a court of law, then it should not be taken seriously.

http://jacobappelbaum.net/

The website explains their reasoning for not going to a court of law, which was why the TOR foundation hired a private investigator to confirm their veracity.

There are a variety of reasons this will never go to court, in part because of Jacob currently residing in Berlin. If you want the full stories, read them here.

http://jacobappelbaum.net/

This is a case of hipster he said she said. SJW 'logic' likely applies.

http://jacobappelbaum.net/ This site reeks of typical SJW style faux fear of intimidation.

You used the "hipster" word, therefore you concede that you are completely full of shit.

This is a case of hipster he said she said. SJW 'logic' likely applies.

http://jacobappelbaum.net/ This site reeks of typical SJW style faux fear of intimidation.

Just because rape can be violent doesn't mean that it is always violent.

People like Jacob Applebaum use their power and influence to manipulate people into doing what he wants.

I have experienced these types of people first hand and it gives me chills to think about even now.

I, for one, am glad that someone created the http://jacobappelbaum.net/ website. It brings awareness and calls him out on his BS.

People like this subsist on the goodwill and empathy of others.

In my book, Jacob Applebaum deserves to get kicked off the board. He brought it on himself.

Sadly, I don't think it will slow him down too much. I am sure that this is not the last we hear about this man.

Also, if Jacob Applebaum was a woman, we likely would not be hearing about this at all...

Consider the hypotheticals which would be true if Tor were as secure as they say.

First, Tor would be knowingly aiding and abetting in the distribution and consumption of child pornography. They would be aware of this, but they would consider it the price you have to pay in order to keep people anonymous online.

Do you think that that is a realistic proposition?

Consider their recent actions against Jacob Applebaum.

http://jacobappelbaum.net/

This is a group of people who went after someone in full SJW witchhunt mode, which is to say it featured anonymous accusors making unsubstantiaABLE claims of a incindiary, sexual nature , a public appeal for more accusors to copycat them under the guise of "seeking more victims", and a Star Chamber style execution of the target.

And these are the exact same people who are going to aide and abet child pornographers - out of principle.

Then there's the people who are at the helm of Tor. For example, Sherri Steele (no Wikipedia entry!). Meet Sherri's husband:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

"He is married to Shari Steele, former Executive Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation,[5][6] currently Executive Director of the Tor Project.[7]

Prior to Liquid Robotics, he was the President and Chief Operating Officer of Sun Microsystems Federal (a Sun Microsystems subsidiary focusing on business with government organizations). He held numerous positions during his more than 10 years at Sun, including Vice-President of Corporate Software Services, Chief Security Officer for Sun IT, and Chief Information Officer (CIO). His background has a significant military and government presence, including a stint as an oversight CIO working underneath the Department of Defense's overall CIO. Before that, he was the Chief Technical Officer and Technical Lead for the U.S. Army's personnel systems.

I am sure he/she is onboard with the whole kiddie porn thing along with his employers.

Then there's the zombie issue of Who Funds Tor- the question that just won't die. What Tor says is it doesn't matter that the government holds the all the practical purse strings (yours and my donation is not keeping the Tor lights on) , the code is the code.

But the code is not the nodes, and let's face it, to maintain the number of servers needed to p0wn the Tor network would be less than the NSA spends on erasers in a month. It would be a rounding error. Think they spent that money? Just, do you?

If the FBI and the NSA are worth a shit, they now have people planted at every level of the Tor development project, people with the clout and numbers sufficient to make hire/ fire/ burn-at-the-stake decisions. That HAD to be a goal of theirs, right? Now do you think they're competent agencies? I sure do.

The reaility is, Tor works closely with the government ot catch badguys. JUST LIKE I WOULD, JUST LIKE YOU WOULD. Think about it. The government comes and says: "kiddie porn child sex trafficking terrorists etc etc etc we need to work together we promise we'll only nab these types promise promise promise" do you cooperate? Really, do you? I sure do and I understand the importance as much as anyone whose made a determined effort to hear all sides of the privacy-security debate and basically considers both extremes to represent mortal dangers to the Republic and civilization itself.

When you're in that position of having to side with one of two possible nightmare scenarios- a George Orwellian nightmare government which can never be vanquished or a terorist organization with, say an unstoppable lethal virus or other civilization-destroying WMD and a guarantee of kiddie porn rings harming real kids, which do you choose, because you HAVE to choose ?

I'll tell you who you choose.

You choose the government because you tell yourself, not untruthfully, that even in a worse case scenario, it's still an error civilization

The vagueness in the accusations of "sexual misconduct" and intimidation is awful. I had to read the stories to figure out what the accusations are.

http://jacobappelbaum.net/ is very weird.

The site is difficult to navigate and difficult to extract the meat of the accusations.

There are 8 stories (+2 empty ones). 1 first person rape account, 1 second person rape account and professional bullying and harassment. 1 first person sexual molestation. The rest are harassment, bullying, intimidation and aggressive, inappropriate sexual propositioning (e.g, asserting himself in professional situations, ignoring personal boundaries and aggressively sexually propositioning in front of a victim's business clients)

"political agenda", yes... although the motivation for it seems to be victimization, and the stories are almost all very public so they should be easy to corroborate.

The design of the site doesn't do anyone a service.

Was he not married? I don't understand what the story is saying.

The link to the allegations is in the summery, but if you don't want to scroll up, here: jacobappelbaum.net

He was sexually harassing men? women? or both?

That's not clear to me, since the names and photo-icons on the site are pseudonyms. Three of them who imply their sex in the narratives are female (despite male-appearing photo-icons)