I am grateful you spoke up, and I acknowledge and appreciate your courage."īut allegations, no matter how serious, are just that, and people have the right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty. It is because of you that this issue has now been addressed. In her newest post announcing the results of the investigation, Steele said that the Tor Project has instituted new policies of behavior, elected a new slate of leaders and she thanked "all the people who broke the silence around Jacob's behavior. She also said, "these types of allegations were not entirely new to everybody at Tor they were consistent with rumors some of us had been hearing for some time." We don't have all the facts," and promised to investigate. The Tor Project is on a mission to protect privacy on the Internet and, true to its nature, these allegations were revealed on an anonymous website where people alleging to be victims told stories that ranged from uninvited touching and kissing to using the word "rape," reported Wired's Andy Greenberg.Īt the time, Tor Project executive director Shari Steele said that, "We do not know exactly what happened here. Shortly after that news of Appelbaum's departure, serious accusations of sexual misconduct surfaced against him, reported Mic's Jack Smith IV.Īppelbaum publicly and vehemently denied all of the allegations, calling the situation "a calculated and targeted attack" to "spread vicious and spurious allegations against me." Appelbaum is a rock-star activist hacker who has worked with WikiLeaks and the Edward Snowden documents. The accusations first surfaced about seven weeks ago, in early June, when the Tor Project quietly announced that Appelbaum had left the organization. The investigation also identified two additional people as having engaged in inappropriate conduct, and they are no longer involved with the Tor Project." Some of those incidents have been shared publicly, and some have not. Many people inside and outside the Tor Project have reported incidents of being humiliated, intimidated, bullied and frightened by Jacob, and several experienced unwanted sexually aggressive behavior from him. Steele says the investigation has revealed some pretty disturbing stuff. In a blog post published Wednesday, Tor Project executive director Shari Steele announced the conclusion of an internal investigation into accusations of sexual misconduct leveled one of its former star developers, Jacob Appelbaum.
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