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Tor Project Installs New Board of Directors After Jacob Appelbaum Controversy (theverge.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the out-with-the-old-in-with-the-new dept.

An anonymous reader writes: The Tor Project announced today that is has elected an entirely new board of directors as part of a larger shake-up after accusations of misconduct by former employee Jacob Appelbaum. Appelbaum left the company in June after the nonprofit organization said it had received multiple accusations against him. The seven board members that are leaving the organization said in a statement today that it is their "duty to ensure that the Tor Project has the best possible leadership." The New York Times reports that the board agreed to step down following the controversy surrounding Appelbaum. Some of the board members who will be leaving include Tor Project co-founders Roger Dingledine and Nick Mathewson, who will continue to work on the organization's technical research and development team, according to the statement. They will be replaced with several prominent cryptographers and scholars, including University of Pennsylvania professor Matt Blaze, Electronic Frontier Foundation Executive Director Cindy Cohn, and security technologist Bruce Schneier. Meanwhile, researchers at MIT have been working on a new anonymity network that they say is more secure than Tor.

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  1. Here we go again... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Why does every single project meant to keep us secure have someone accused of sex crimes under fishy circumstances? Even Linus gets some of this now. I hope he avoids going anywhere without reliable witnesses present.

    Why is there no mention of the fact that one of the alleged anonymous "victims" said that the people who came forward did not speak for her and that the accusations were completely false? I seem to remember that Slashdot never bothered to post that story and yes, I did, in fact, submit it.

    Make of this what you will. Do we only cover the parts of the story we want people to hear?

    1. Re: Here we go again... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

      Apparently. Remember that Slashdot was recently bought by a company called "Bizx LLC". Haven't been able to find much reliable information on them. With the amount of worthless money the Fed has to insert into the economy to support the unsustainable debt, you've got to have a massive number of corrupt and unaccountable people who haven't had real success and added real value taking ownership of more and more, like a virus, simply because they are closer to the central banks. Have you guys heard these banks have renamed CDOs and are starting the whole bubble building process again?

  2. No, no, no! The headline is misleading! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    The board stepped down.
    Voluntarily.

  3. Re:Bruce Schneier! Woooooo Hoooooo! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    [1] isn't he former DoD or something?

    A very interestig and apparently false accusation to make. He's worked for British Telecomms when a company he co-founded got bought out, but it's not quite the same thing. He's also had a book (Applied Cryptography) used in lawsuits against the defence establishment, but again, that's not quite the same as working for them.

    Do you have some citation or are you just randomly spreading shit?