For those confused, several people have accused him of sexual harassment and at least one has accused him of outright rape.<p><a href="http://jacobappelbaum.net/" rel="nofollow">http://jacobappelbaum.net/</a><p><a href="https://twitter.com/VictimsOfJake" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/VictimsOfJake</a><p>Before people get too conspiratorial about honeypots and whatever else, Andrea Shepard is a core developer and had this to say:<p><a href="https://twitter.com/puellavulnerata/status/738581432893743104" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/puellavulnerata/status/73858143289374310...</a><p>> Precommitment revealed: sha256("It seems one rapist is one rapist too many\n")
I just wish there was something more to this here. While I can't speak for either side, I always struggle with this type of accusation as anyone can say anything. Consensual and didn't like something after can lead to false allegations. The flip side is these action(s) did happen and that's horrible. for me, I always feel this shouldn't be public at all because a false allegation does similar damage reputationally that a real one does. For this reason, if the victim goes to social media I no longer believe them since the risk of damage to good people outweighs the crime to my moral stance. I respect that others may not agree with this though.
If someone happens to be a high-profile security researcher, they can safely assume their behavior is under an Argus smartphone camera HPC cluster of microscopes and therefore should take extraordinary care to avoid any appearance of impropriety, even where none exists (just like when working at an elite university or MBB consulting shop). With Twitter and YouTube in every pocket, everyone is a potential journalist. If there happen to be a few feminist crazy people actively trying to destroy and entrap folks, then extra care with public interactions, coworkers and others is a best practice, and being guarded about whom is let into private parties as well.<p>Finally, it may or may not be applicable to this scenario, but a common failure pattern occurs when people sell themselves on the delusion of boundary-less, untouchable privilege and then end up in hubris and legal trouble (i.e., Jimmy Savile, Bill Cosby, etc.)
I dont care about that guy, he was never a favorite of mine. But the way the people around Tor publicised this with reusing the phrase rape again and again really disappointed me.<p>They know exactly how easy it is to shout rape and destroy someones life, still they did exactly that, even thought all we know is that he is a sexist asshole. What does not particular make him to a rapist.
Right now he is still on <a href="https://www.torproject.org/about/corepeople.html.en" rel="nofollow">https://www.torproject.org/about/corepeople.html.en</a>
Hm, does this have anything to do with:<p><a href="http://chronicle.su/2015/06/17/jacob-appelbaum-expelled-from-wikileaks-organization-after-opm-hack-reveals-tor-is-funded-by-us-navy/" rel="nofollow">http://chronicle.su/2015/06/17/jacob-appelbaum-expelled-from...</a><p>Or this?<p><a href="https://pando.com/2015/06/22/how-aclu-helped-government-harass-jacob-appelbaum/" rel="nofollow">https://pando.com/2015/06/22/how-aclu-helped-government-hara...</a>