[tor-talk] Jacob, A legacy tarnished by hubris

[Cari Machet]

Please do not demean turks thank you for your clear statement however
On Jun 5, 2016 6:33 PM, <tect at sigaint.org> wrote:

> 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.
>
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