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:mag: An investigation into Jacob Appelbaum leaving the Tor Project

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jacobappelbaumleavestor's Introduction

❎ ▫️ ◽ ◻️ Jacob Appelbaum Leaves Tor ◻️ ◽ ▫️ ❎

Jacob Appelbaum speaks at re:publica 2014 in Station-Berlin. Photo credit: DAVIDS/Gregor Fischer

🔍 An investigation into Jacob Appelbaum leaving the Tor Project | 2016 - 2023

Disclaimers: This is a place for me to collect evidence and news on the story. I will source everything as thoroughly as possible; however, just because I include information or sources here does not mean I agree or disagree with it or them. I will only include information that is publicly available; any information that is given to me in confidence will not be published without the expressed consent of the sender. I am not personally or professionally involved with anyone from the Tor Project. I am not, nor have I ever been, in any physical and/or romantic relationship with Jacob Appelbaum. I do not condone the harassment of any individuals (accuser, accused, etc.) on the basis of information that is presented here. This repository is not published or represented, such as through "vanity" accounts, anywhere else online - any individual or media organization who republishes, mentions, or promotes this investigation repository is not in any way affiliated with me unless expressly stated otherwise here. I have received no compensation for this work.

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ContraSpin: The Weaponising Of Social Part 2 (archived), The Weaponising of Social Part 3 (archived)

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jacobappelbaumleavestor's Issues

I hope i'm not annoying you with this but here's another tweet:

https://twitter.com/asta_fish/status/743165546238189568

(In context it's clearly about Appelbaum. Dunno if you want to include it or not, but it IS another (pseudonymously, but NOT anonymously) reported incident.)

Just FYI

Violet Blue has some tweets about this https://twitter.com/violetblue/status/740445576643383296 (and https://twitter.com/violetblue/ in general)

Certain links do not work anymore

Tor developer George Kadianakis ("asn") shared a link with former Tor Browser bundle signer Erinn Clark ("helix") to a Riseup.net etherpad first saved on November 30th, 2015 (shown via the timeslider), which doesn't appear to have been edited further until June 26th 2016; someone used the pad to allege that Lovecruft was an FBI informant between 14:36-14:49 on June 27th. Since anyone can edit anonymously and the date of the edit is so recent (within a day of the pastebins going viral), there is no reason to believe this etherpad document is authentic.

The etherpad link in this quote do not work anymore. Same goes for the githubusercontent link under it.

Make into separate sections

Maybe it be a good idea to separate the main sections like

The History
The Resignation
The Website and Twitter Accounts
The Allegations
The Public Reaction

Would maybe make it easy to browse the document. I can send pull request if you like.

Factual inaccuracy about directory authorities

"He also ran one of Tor's directory authorities (nicknamed "urras"), special servers which maintain a list of all verified exit nodes and help Tor clients find relays in the network"

AFAIK, directory authorities maintain a list/consensus about all Tor relays, not just exit relays. I think there's one exception: unpublished bridge relays. Those must necessarily be kept from public view for them to work.

Nick Far asked to purge wiki history, possibly unrelated 11dec'15 tweet with commitment

I am glad i was wrong in feeling that waiting for the truth would "only dull the senses", as i felt it did with Ian Murdock.(Mind you i don't actually know these people, "only by software", but...) I tried taking notes, but nothing not noted here better already, really.

Nick Far was also asked to purge the history of the wiki page from the guy wanting to do a lightning talk on him being a US Intelligence Operative. Perhaps just distracting detail.(edit: alledgedly, of course)

11 Dec 2015,(creation of tweet ithink) Jake also pinned 62f50063cf2f4be935275032e13394e4857c232b However, no indication at all what it is about, or at all related. (perh. distracting detail..)

Note: i am in Eindhoven.

Comment from @ioerror [2016-06-06 0811 GMT]

Tweet: http://archive.is/G92Wf
Comment: http://archive.is/BOf49

Second and more revealing Anna Loll piece

http://www.taz.de/Der-Fall-Jacob-Appelbaum/!5361578/

Published 10. Dezember 2016

ICYMI

Two tweets by founding executive director of TOR Shava Nerad, sharing details on the reason Appelbaum was not interviewed by the investigator.
http://archive.is/8h1Ss
http://archive.is/gV22m

Another leaked document.

In https://www.oneeyedman.net/ there is a post linking an (unverified, AFAIK) email sent by Roger Dingledine.

Relevant tweets (witnesses to another incident)

https://twitter.com/micahflee/status/741727831672000512

(and the tweet it's quoting) are two witnesses to the account from "Phoenix" on the anon website

Navigation with Updates

I've opened this issue to ask how easy it is for you (readers) to find new information in my investigation. Even though every commit is highlighted in the History, I don't know whether readers use that to find new information or if you just scroll through the article looking for parts that seem new. I would appreciate if I could get a few responses on one or more of these questions:

1) How do you find new information/ updates that I add? How easy are they to find?
2) Do you think I should make it easier to find these new/ updated sections?