In the few interactions I had with Jacob over the years he gave a vibe of being an arrogant, self-worshiping narcissist prick with with delusions of grandeur and an ego the size of a small planet, but he has spent a decade in the Tor Project and despite his tragic character flaws he has achieved much good that should be recounted here for the public record.
Jacob was the developer of the Tor Birdy plugin for Thunderbird, giving us a more anonymous email client. He worked on torsocks, a core part of Tor and was partially responsible for Orbot's conception. A Tor evangelist, he setup relays across the world and raised public awareness about mass surveillance. He collaborated on publishing some of the biggest technical stories from the Snowden archive and used his access to turn this information into actionable counter-intelligence for the whole software ecosystem. All in all, its amazing how much he achieved coming from a broken family with no formal education. Instead of lying in a gutter somewhere with a needle coming out from his arm he made something of his life. Jacob's gift for public speaking sparked his meteoric rise from obscurity and made him the face of the project, a big miscalculation. No doubt, the powerful feeling of swaying crowds and the resulting cult personality status he achieved gave him a reckless sense of self-entitlement and illusion of the community as a conveyor belt for free pussy, consent be damned. Kudos to the Tor community for handling the situation the way they did. The reputation of the project should never be tied to that of a single individual, but be carefully managed by PR specialists. Your work is too important for any dicking around. Make no mistake, I am not a rape apologist and if the allegations are true, then he deserves nothing less than an eventful rendezvous with a big, burly Turkish bubba in the nearest German prison. Sometimes our own worse enemies are ourselves... not the NSA. -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk