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Jacob Appelbaum | |
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 Jacob Appelbaum at the Congress on Privacy & Surveillance (2013) of the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). | |
| Born | April 1, 1983 |
| Citizenship | American |
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| Awards | 2014 Henri Nannen Prize |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer security, Cryptography |
| Institutions | University of Washington,[1] Eindhoven University of Technology,[2] Noisebridge,[3] WikiLeaks |
| Doctoral advisor | Tanja Lange, Daniel J. Bernstein[2][4] |
Jacob Appelbaum (born April 1, 1983)[6] is an American independent journalist, computer security researcher, artist, and hacker.
Appelbaum studied at the Eindhoven University of Technology and was a core member of the Tor Project, a free software network designed to provide online anonymity, until he stepped down from his position after multiple victims came forward with sexual abuse and rape allegations in 2016.[7][8][9] He was among several people to work with NSA contractor Edward Snowden's top secret documents released in 2013.[10] His journalistic work has been published in Der Spiegel and elsewhere. Appelbaum is also known for representing WikiLeaks.[5] He has displayed his art in a number of institutions across the world and has collaborated with artists such as Laura Poitras, Trevor Paglen, and Ai Weiwei.[11]
Under the pseudonym "ioerror," Appelbaum was an active member of the Cult of the Dead Cow hacker collective from 2008[8] to 2016, when sexual abuse allegations led to him being the only person to ever be ejected from the group.[12] He was the co-founder of the San Francisco hackerspace Noisebridge with Mitch Altman. He worked for Kink.com[13] and Greenpeace[14] and volunteered for the Ruckus Society and the Rainforest Action Network.[5]
Many of these organizations, as well as his employer Tor, ended their association with Appelbaum in June 2016 following allegations of sexual abuse.[12][15][16][17][18][19] After a seven-week investigation led by an outside investigator, Tor concluded that many of the allegations of misconduct were accurate.[20][21] Appelbaum has denied the allegations.[22] Various activists and others publicly supported Appelbaum, voicing concerns about due process, trial by social media, and questioning the claims,[23][24][25] while others credit the incident with changing the information security community's attitude towards sheltering known abusers.[4] The affair has had repercussions in the online privacy advocacy world.[26] U.S. news media treated the allegations as credible,[20][21] and reactions in Germany were mixed.[27][28]
- ^ a b "Tor Project: Core People". Tor. Archived from the original on 22 July 2012. Retrieved 13 April 2015.
- ^ a b Appelbaum, Jacob (Sep 1, 2015). "Today is my first day as a PhD student with @hyperelliptic and @hashbreaker at @tue_mcs. #pqc". Archived from the original on December 21, 2020. Retrieved Sep 5, 2019.
- ^ "Noisebridge user page". Noisebridge. Archived from the original on 27 February 2012. Retrieved 11 October 2011.
- ^ a b Jeong, Sarah (2017-12-21). "What happened when the infosec community outed its own sexual predators". The Verge. Archived from the original on 2019-03-21. Retrieved 2019-03-21.
- ^ a b c Rich, Nathaniel (1 December 2010). "The American Wikileaks Hacker". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 17 March 2015. Retrieved 3 July 2014.
An anarchist street kid raised by a heroin- addict father, he dropped out of high school, taught himself the intricacies of code and developed a healthy paranoia along the way.
- ^ "Ai Weiwei Teams Up With Wikileaks Activist Jacob Appelbaum For Collaboration". Artlyst.com. 2015-04-28.
- ^ "Jacob Appelbaum leaves the Tor Project". Tor Project. 2 June 2016. Archived from the original on 10 July 2022. Retrieved 10 July 2022.
- ^ a b Farivar, Cyrus (5 June 2016). "Tor developer Jacob Appelbaum quits after "sexual mistreatment" allegations". Ars Technica. Conde Nast. Archived from the original on 7 June 2016. Retrieved 5 June 2016.
- ^ Abbelbaum, Jacob (6 June 2016). "Twitlonger - When you talk too much for Twitter". Archived from the original on 10 July 2022. Retrieved 10 July 2022.
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NYT Dissentwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ a b "CULT OF THE DEAD COW Statement on Jacob Appelbaum / ioerror" (Press release). Cult of the Dead Cow. 6 June 2016. Archived from the original on 24 June 2016. Retrieved 2016-06-08.
- ^ Hartwell, Lane (10 June 2007). "So Who Wants to F**k a Robot?". Wired.com. Archived from the original on 31 March 2014. Retrieved 9 August 2013.
- ^ Appelbaum, Jacob (22 June 2004). "Geeks Love Trees, Too". Greenpeace – Weblog. Archived from the original on 3 August 2004. Retrieved 26 January 2011.
- ^ Trevor, Timm (8 June 2016). "Statement on Jacob Appelbaum". Freedom of the Press Foundation. Archived from the original on 8 June 2016. Retrieved 8 June 2016.
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'Sam' and 'Forest' Reveal Identitieswas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "Noisebridge Statement on Jacob Appelbaum". Noisebridge Blog. Archived from the original on 14 June 2016. Retrieved 16 June 2016.
- ^ Turton, William (2016-06-17). "Jacob Appelbaum Banned From Prominent Hacker Conference Following Sexual Assault Allegations". Gizmodo. Archived from the original on 2016-06-17. Retrieved 18 June 2016.
- ^ "Security expert Appelbaum no longer part of Debian". ITWire. 18 June 2016. Archived from the original on 23 June 2016. Retrieved 2 July 2016.
- ^ a b Cite error: The named reference
:0was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ a b "Investigation confirms Jacob Appelbaum sexual misconduct at Tor Project". The Daily Dot. 2016-07-28. Archived from the original on 2022-03-29. Retrieved 2022-07-22.
- ^ Yadron, Danny (6 June 2016). "Digital privacy activist Jacob Appelbaum denies colleagues' assault allegations". the Guardian. Retrieved 12 July 2016.
- ^ Riegel, Tobias (13 June 2016). "Die Presse und der Pranger" [The press and the pillory]. neues deutschland (in German). Archived from the original on 14 June 2016. Retrieved 17 June 2016.
- ^ Alphonso, Don (13 June 2016). "Aktivistinnen rufen zum Ende der Hetzjagd gegen Appelbaum auf" [Women activists call for an end to the witch-hunt against Jacob Appelbaum]. Faz.net (in German). Archived from the original on 16 June 2016. Retrieved 17 June 2016.
- ^ "In solidarity with Jacob Applebaum and on the side of justice for all". Jun 8, 2017. Archived from the original on 2017-06-08. Retrieved Sep 5, 2019.
- ^ Peterson, Andrea (2016-07-28). "Jacob Appelbaum was an online privacy hero. Then a sex misconduct scandal exploded". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 2021-01-30. Retrieved 2016-07-30.
- ^ Fuchs, Christian; Weisbrod, Lars; Mondial, Sebastian (13 August 2016). "Jacob Appelbaum: What Has This Man Done?". Die Zeit. zeit.de. Number 34. Archived from the original on 13 August 2016. Retrieved 13 August 2016.
- ^ Boie, Johannes (6 June 2016). "Jacob Appelbaum weist Missbrauchsvorwürfe zurück". Süddeutsche.de (in German). Retrieved 2023-03-18.