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

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On 2016-06-05 12:18, Cari Machet wrote:
> 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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However what? Your response was so short and not even a complete 
sentence. This is confusing.