On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 11:43 AM, Jacek Wielemborek d33tah@gmail.com wrote:

Hello,

I heard on Hacker News that Tor Project announced that Jacob Appelbaum "Appelbaum stepped down from his position at The Tor Project". Why is that? HN users are theorizing about FBI's involvement:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11831629

Does anybody know anything specific?

Cheers, d33tah

Having seen first hand how a large open source project can badly mishandle a situation and sour relations when one of its contributors is in the cross-hairs of the State, I think its best for Tor and Jacob to let them handle this discretely. If Jacob wants to say something on his behalf that's fine. In the likely event that that is not the case, just leave it be. Something that people don't generally understand unless they've experienced it first hand is that the media is 95% a mouthpiece for the state, all too often simply distorting the facts and editing out the details that don't support the State's claims. It's really not in the Tor project's best interest to be directly associated one with someone who might bring the wrong kind of attention to it (assuming that that is the reasoning, it may well be unrelated).

I'm sure you're well intended and are just concerned about Jacob. But if it is what HN claims, let it pass.

Cheers. -M