- Motivation
- The Accusations
- Statements from Organizations
- Statements from Individuals
- The Timeline
- Contributions
- Corrections GO HERE IF YOU THINK SOMETHING IS INCORRECT OR MISLEADING
- Further Reading
At the beginning of June 2016, news broke that a prominent member of the Hacker/Journalist/Leak Community had become the target of multiple serious allegations of sexual misconduct. I was aware of certain aspects of this person and after reading the accounts, certain things clicked for me which I had not seen or could not perceive before. If this person had acted alone, lead a double-life and secretly done terrible things, I might never have cared to collect this information. The most painful realization was that these things could never have been done alone, at every step of the way the Community had to have protected him, covered up the stories and shushed the victims. This event lead me to the tragic realization that the Open, Tolerant and Progressive Hacker Community of which I believed myself a member - was no more than a figment of my imagination. It is fair to say that in my heart I believe the victims, but I have chosen to maintain this repository with the highest level of impartiality that I can, so I might sleep at night even if I am proven to be wrong.
And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
- @feminaecognosce Jacob Appelbaum raped me too...
- @isislovecruft Jacob Appelbaum sexually assaulted me. I'm Forest on http://jacobappelbaum.net
- @flexlibris Jake Appelbaum sexually assaulted me, too. Read about why I'm going public, and what we can do now.
- @hypatiadotca Jacob ignored my use of a safeword
- @violetblue 30c3: where he threatened me as well, and I never returned
- @legind On abuse verification: I personally witnessed the testimony of Phoenix
- @violetblue his humiliation/bullying tactics didn't work to make me give in
- @violetblue I physically stopped him from harassing/trying to isolate and fuck a frightened female friend
- @quinnnorton a few people told me about J is that he directly threaten to set the mob on them
- @quinnnorton I've held the hands of ppl who talked about Jake's abuse. Sometimes they raged, sometimes cried. They were scared.
- @hdevalence I resigned, due to sexual harassment, bullying, blackmail, and physical harm
- @ackflags He stole research from many of my friends
- @maradydd Those "differences" being him ripping off our research in 2007
- @eqe It took me a few days to start to engage with my responsibility for the things that Jake had done.
- tante After years of whispered warnings some had enough of Jake Appelbaum's emotional and sexual abuse and went public
- @flamsmark if even half of the things I've been told are true, he should be in jail
- @bcrypt I thought I knew which of my friends and heroes had been harmed by JA but the number grows each day
- @lex_is From Montreal's activist scene to #Tor I can't help but feel like it's the same story every time
- @maradydd People deserve to know why Tor evicted its resident sociopath
- @denkiii cDc - "we've decided to remove Jake from the herd effective immediately"
- @legind Freedom of the Press Foundation removes Jacob Appelbaum from its Technical Advisory Board
- TorProject after extensive internal deliberation and discussion, Jacob stepped down from his position
- @chaosupdates Be excellent to each other
- @chaosupdates (8 days later) this means Jacob Appelbaum @ioerror is not welcome
- Debian Project Status Debian Developer, removed since 2016-06-18
- @banasidhe saying more than "I have my reasons for not trusting him" would just be "drama"
- @oaklandelle Jake has been a missing stair people have quietly warned one another about for years
- @quinnorton oh, things happened, but the were specifically about silencing victims
- @violetblue I've known Jake since 2005. This isn't new or recent behavior.
- hdevalence (Henry de Valence)
- I resigned, due to sexual harassment, bullying, blackmail, and physical harm as a result of their favorite student, Jacob Appelbaum, as well as Tanja and Dan's total abdication of their responsibility to manage the workplace environment in their research group.
- https://medium.com/@hdevalence/when-hell-kept-on-payroll-somewhere-is-where-you-are-f419d3022d0
- https://twitter.com/hdevalence/status/842526511915786240
- eqe (Andy Isaacson) @eqe 2h2 hours ago
- I've decided to share my experience and thoughts for the future about sexual assault in the hacker community.
- https://medium.com/@eqe/not-working-for-us-bff58e96c2ea … #33c3
- https://twitter.com/eqe/status/814525213652041728
- Feminae Cognosce @feminaecognosce 17h17 hours ago
- Jacob Appelbaum raped me too. I'd like to talk about how we can better address rape culture in the hacker community.
- https://feminaecognosce.tumblr.com/post/154771883045/jacob-appelbaum-and-rape-culture-my-experience-in
- https://twitter.com/feminaecognosce/status/811645214284660736
- Status Debian Developer, removed since 2016-06-18
- https://nm.debian.org/public/person/error
- CCC Updates @chaosupdates 5m5 minutes ago
- Yes, of course this means Jacob Appelbaum @ioerror is not welcome. http://grin.to/ICZC1
- https://twitter.com/chaosupdates/status/743796751694467073
- 8 days and 2 rape accusations after their extremely vague statement, #CCC finally "clarifies" it. Jake's out.
- Garrett Robinson @garrettr_ 17h17 hours ago San Francisco, CA
- I am joining @legind and @micahflee in publicly stating that I can corroborate Phoenix's anonymous account on http://jacobappelbaum.net
- https://twitter.com/garrettr_/status/743306833440342021
- isis agora lovecruft @isislovecruft 1h1 hour ago Paris, France
- Jacob Appelbaum sexually assaulted me. I'm Forest on http://jacobappelbaum.net . Here's my full story and what's next: https://blog.patternsinthevoid.net/the-forest-for-the-trees.html …
- https://twitter.com/isislovecruft/status/743131291093209089
- Alison Macrina @flexlibris 2h2 hours ago
- Jake Appelbaum sexually assaulted me, too. Read about why I'm going public, and what we can do now.
- https://medium.com/@flexlibris/theres-really-no-such-thing-as-the-voiceless-92b3fa45134d#.st6iwkwao
- https://twitter.com/flexlibris/status/743115536251359232
- Quinn Norton @quinnnorton
- Jake has humiliated and even threatened to rape a friend of mine in front of me. But hey, #notallwomen.
- https://twitter.com/quinnnorton/status/741763431389241345
- Cryptome @Cryptomeorg Jun 11
- Statement of Solidarity with Jacob Appelbaum @ioerror
- https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2858953-Statement-Appelbaum-11-06.html … / @cfarivar @J9Roem
- https://twitter.com/Cryptomeorg/status/741656612398628864
- yan @bcrypt
- Jake Appelbaum no longer welcome at @noisebridge: https://noisebridge.net/wiki/Noisebridge_Statement_on_Jacob_Appelbaum …
- https://twitter.com/bcrypt/status/741411644434087937
- Bill Budington @legind
- On abuse verification: I personally witnessed the testimony of Phoenix, and heard first-hand accounts of numerous other reports from victims
- https://twitter.com/legind/status/741311763484790786
- clarified: He witnessed the incident "Phoenix" in jacobapplebaum.net https://twitter.com/legind/status/742052332540567552
- phoenix story can be found here: https://github.com/ioerrror/jacobappelbaum.net/blob/master/content/phoenix.md
- Cyrus Farivar @cfarivar Jun 9
- Like @Cryptomeorg, I was anonymously sent a 2015 @torproject internal email reprimanding Jacob Appelbaum (@ioerror). https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2858268-Appelbaum-Wurde-Im-Jahr-2015-Ausgesetzt.html …
- https://twitter.com/cfarivar/status/741010375278108672
- Ioerror Info @ioerror_info Jun 9
- Statement by Jill Bähring regarding Jacob Appelbaum Read: http://tl.gd/n_1sop8ps
- https://twitter.com/ioerror_info/status/741005288954834944
- Cryptome @Cryptomeorg Jun 9
- Jacob Appelbaum Suspension 2015 https://cryptome.org/2016/06/appelbaum-suspension-2015.pdf …
- https://twitter.com/Cryptomeorg/status/741003523777830912
- Joe BernsteinVerified account @Bernstein Jun 9
- SCOOP: Sources: Tor Project Board Knew Of Allegations Against Jacob Appelbaum For Over A Year https://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/sources-tor-project-board-knew-about-allegations-against-jac
- https://twitter.com/Bernstein/status/740978308599435264
- CCC Updates @chaosupdates Jun 9
- Be excellent to each other http://ccc.de/de/updates/2016/a-reminder-to-be-excellent-to-each-other … https://twitter.com/chaosupdates/status/740936637044006912
- 9:25PM June 8 2016
- Bill Budington @legind Jun 8
- Freedom of the Press Foundation removes Jacob Appelbaum from its Technical Advisory Board https://freedom.press/blog/2016/06/statement-jacob-appelbaum … @FreedomofPress
- https://twitter.com/legind/status/740625832842911744
- Banasidhe @banasidhe Jun 8
- @violetblue Years of knowing compounded by the knowing that saying more than "I have my reasons for not trusting him" would just be "drama".
- https://twitter.com/banasidhe/status/740452335864930304
- Violet Blue ® @violetblue Jun 8
- -because I physically stopped him from harassing/trying to isolate and fuck a frightened female friend at a party. He was furious.
- https://twitter.com/violetblue/status/740446782505779200
- Violet Blue ® @violetblue Jun 8
- Jake hated and threatened me because I wouldn't fuck him, and his humiliation/bullying tactics didn't work to make me give in. And because -
- https://twitter.com/violetblue/status/740446500891860992
- Violet Blue ® @violetblue Jun 8
- For the record, I've known Jake since 2005. This isn't new or recent behavior. Many of us are just surprised it took this long to come out.
- https://twitter.com/violetblue/status/740445576643383296
- Quinn Norton @quinnnorton Jun 8
- @Dymaxion @kramse @hashbreaker oh, things happened, but the were specifically about silencing victims.
- https://twitter.com/quinnnorton/status/740437786147336193
- Quinn Norton @quinnnorton
- & 1 of the things a few people told me about J is that he directly threaten to set the mob on them & destroy their lives if they spoke out.
- https://twitter.com/quinnnorton/status/740375977172176896
- Quinn Norton @quinnnorton
- What @hashbreaker doesn't understand here is the due process can't die when it was never born in the first place. https://blog.cr.yp.to/20160607-dueprocess.html …
- https://twitter.com/quinnnorton/status/740373703192502273
- yan @bcrypt Jun 8
- yan Retweeted Leigh Honeywell ( https://twitter.com/hypatiadotca/status/740339378233315328 )
- I thought I knew which of my friends and heroes had been harmed by JA but the number grows each day. It's fucked up.
- https://twitter.com/bcrypt/status/740406090135920641
- Leigh Honeywell @hypatiadotca Jun 8
- "He said, they said" - I wrote about what it was like being involved with Jacob. https://hypatia.ca/2016/06/07/he-said-they-said/
- https://twitter.com/hypatiadotca/status/740339378233315328
- contains: "Jacob ignored my use of a safeword when his sexual behavior turned into violent behavior that violated my limits."
- Oxblood Ruffin 3.0 @OxbloodRuffin
- cc @torproject @ioerror and everyone else. contains a screencap of a long account on facebook by Emerson Tan
- https://twitter.com/OxbloodRuffin/status/740275426581450753
- This account was later denounced by the person involved in I'm that girl
- denkiii @denkiii
- cDc - "we've decided to remove Jake from the herd effective immediately". https://www.facebook.com/cultdeadcow/posts/10157076402890360 …
- https://twitter.com/denkiii/status/740222910472847360
- Confection Imagineer @OaklandElle Jun 7
- This behavior has not been isolated. Jake has been a missing stair people have quietly warned one another about for years.
- https://twitter.com/OaklandElle/status/739969198089084929
- "missing stair" refers to a story about a hazard which everyone knows about but remains unfixed http://pervocracy.blogspot.com/2012/06/missing-stair.html
- Quinn Norton @quinnnorton Jun 6
- Quinn Norton Retweeted Jacob Appelbaum ( https://twitter.com/ioerror/status/739731362404536320 )
- I've held the hands of ppl who talked about Jake's abuse. Sometimes they raged, sometimes cried. They were scared.
- https://twitter.com/quinnnorton/status/739937558533021697
- Franklin Bynum @frabyn
- Decoding Jake Appelbaum https://medium.com/@frabyn/decoding-jake-appelbaum-9fa75d060310
- https://twitter.com/frabyn/status/739892839509688320 In which he points out that Jake never directly denied any of the allegations
- Meredith L Patterson @maradydd Jun 6
- Jake plunged into a loud, tearful "let's put our differences aside." Those "differences" being him ripping off our research in 2007. 3/n
- https://twitter.com/maradydd/status/739797600111468544
- lex @lex_is
- From Montreal's activist scene to #Tor I can't help but feel like it's the same story every time: https://lexgill.com/2016/06/06/three-hundred-and-twenty-four/
- https://twitter.com/lex_is/status/739795427646668801
- Quinn Norton @quinnnorton Jun 6
- Quinn Norton Retweeted Nick Farr ( https://twitter.com/Nickf4rr/status/739521667139932161 )
- I just want to +1 this. I was around for a lot of this story, and it was awful to watch.
- https://twitter.com/quinnnorton/status/739667569993359360
- Violet Blue ® @violetblue Jun 5
- Violet Blue ® Retweeted Nick Farr ( https://twitter.com/Nickf4rr/status/739521667139932161 )
- Ah yes, 30c3: where he threatened me as well, and I never returned. Thank you for writing this, Nick.
- https://twitter.com/violetblue/status/739564602715832320
- Nick Farr @Nickf4rr Jun 5
- This is the story of @ioerror's coordinated campaign of abuse towards me during the 30c3. My story is not unique. https://medium.com/@nickf4rr/hi-im-nick-farr-nickf4rr-35c32f13da4d#.wzobf6jog
- https://twitter.com/Nickf4rr/status/739521667139932161
- Tom Lowenthal @flamsmark Jun 5
- Really glad that Appelbaum is no longer a Tor Project employee, but if even half of the things I've been told are true, he should be in jail
- https://twitter.com/flamsmark/status/739352097095749632
- sky croeser @scroeser Jun 5
- Recent news about Tor seems utterly unsurprising to everyone. So why don't communities deal with this stuff sooner?
- https://twitter.com/scroeser/status/739312141946081280
- Jürgen Geuter @tante Jun 4
- After years of whispered warnings some had enough of Jake Appelbaum's emotional and sexual abuse and went public http://jacobappelbaum.net
- https://twitter.com/tante/status/739010515972816896
- Jaime Cochran
- @ACKFlags Jaime Cochran Retweeted Sài Gòn Séamus ( https://twitter.com/SaiGonSeamus/status/738974558867202048 )
- Oh I was very VERY vocal about Goth Jake. He stole research from many of my friends, it's up to them to speak out.
- https://twitter.com/ACKFlags/status/738975313170825216
- 5:27AM June 4 2016
- https://github.com/ioerrror/jacobappelbaum.net/commit/5c282db2ff02ef7844e796a80c5b80ba1ac71482
- This repository seems to have been re-created a number of times with no history visible
- June 4 2016
- https://blog.torproject.org/blog/statement
- https://twitter.com/VictimsOfJake created
- This twitter account was originally called TimeToDieJake
- Meredith L Patterson @maradydd Jun 3
- https://blog.torproject.org/blog/jacob-appelbaum-leaves-tor-project … is a gross disservice to the Tor community. People deserve to know why Tor evicted its resident sociopath.
- https://twitter.com/maradydd/status/738801590333624320
- Domain Name: JACOBAPPELBAUM.NET
- Registry Domain ID: 2031748594_DOMAIN_NET-VRSN
- Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.publicdomainregistry.com
- Registrar URL: www.publicdomainregistry.com
- Updated Date: 2016-05-27T21:15:40Z
- Creation Date: 2016-05-27T21:15:39Z
- Ei/Ψ @Ei_PSI May 27
- Thanks to audience & speakers for a constructive & interesting event https://www.win.tue.nl/eipsi/surveillance.html … Hope that @ioerror will get better soon.
- https://twitter.com/Ei_PSI/status/735955777266028544
- "created_at": "2016-05-26T10:55:56Z",
- https://api.github.com/users/ioerrror
- Someone created a fake user on github called ioerrror which is a typo-squat
- pub 4096R/799AE1F2 2016-05-26 Jacob Appelbaum's Victims Collective jacobsvictims@gmail.com
- https://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=0x2784B696799AE1F2
- Andreⓐ @puellavulnerata May 25
- A precommitment: bfb9a7c833a5fc8f5a938d816b1bbc4acaa06519fdb1af4c8632719596807dac
- https://twitter.com/puellavulnerata/status/735230102154448898
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- First hand accounts are most highly valued: "I am
____and during___, Jake did____to me." - Second hand accounts also highly valued: "I knew someone who was
___, I was there." - Statements from organizations such as TorProject, noisebridge, cDc and CCC
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