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JacobAppelbaumLeavesTor
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JacobAppelbaumLeavesTor

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

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

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Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by year9 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2016-06-08 15:16:19 UTC to 2023-09-18 22:07:15 UTC.

01232016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20162017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

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Because they're so bad it would need a global system of total surveillance to catch them? Sure. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11872642 ^ that is what that is. Or, in more detail: https://github.com/Enegnei/JacobAppelbaumLeavesTor/blob/mast... You can't connect real things like these documents with slander by people who do nothing to step on the toes of the NSA. That is all that the BS about Assange or Appelbaum being a sex menace or Snowden being a Russian asset is. "Oh noes, they're a threat to the work we're not doing". Nobody is asking you to get drinks with Assange or Appelbaum. They don't want to be your friend. It's okay if you don't like them, for whatever personal reasons (and choosing to fall for this crap falls under personal reasons). It's not okay to be part of a mob that murders people by throwing a pebble each with th
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is plausible deniability, in this "genuinely curious" just wondering kind of way. Enough is enough. It certainly isn't fascinating. 3 letter agencies are torturing and murdering people, and having nothing better to do than gossip about gossip about messengers is just vulgar, boring, infantile cowardice, puffed up with not even clever words.
In Some new snippets from the Snowden documents
I actually had https://blog.cr.yp.to/20160607-dueprocess.html in mind when mentioning political beliefs, but even then I think that this still falls under the "political belief" label - the belief that anyone accused of rape should not have any form of defence. Anyway, the person who is being sued was part of a harassment campaign against multiple people, including Bernstein himself, so I can't see why it would be a bad thing for him to send his declaration. For anyone interested, his declaration is here: https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.340308... And here is the most objective and complete story of the Appelbaum events that I have personally seen so far https://github.com/Enegnei/JacobAppelbaumLeavesTor/blob/mast... (if anyone has anything better please do let me know) > accused of sexual abuse by multiple victims In
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cluding false accusations by others in the name of the so called victims. Such as the "Alice" case. (if I am not mistaken this specific accusation was published by the person being sued themselves)
In 15 years later: remote code execution in qmail
Here, have something more serious and in depth. https://github.com/Enegnei/JacobAppelbaumLeavesTor/blob/mast... I formed my own conclusions, including about those who take this lightly. Who has called out journalists seriously since? That's the last he did before the attack website and the carefully placed articles started, no? For all this talk about how Appelbaum was this sociopath plagiarist just being charistmatic and summarizing the work of otehrs, while others do the super serious work (that doesn't include not partaking in witch hunts, but it's fine to be this socially inept, and spout so much sophistry, because you see, he is the sociopath, that slot is taken so everybody else is in the clear), and all those crickets chirping in response to questions about that, including on HN, complete with downvote brigades, the flagged article
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by someone offering their first-hand account in response to what third parties claimed about them, and so on -- I haven't seen anyone pick up the mantle yet. Even assuming every single accusation against him is completely true, that absolutely pales in comrparison to the "response" to it, and how transparent it is. HN is completely scorched earth in that regard until downvotes are made public. That would be interesting, until then take care.
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