Please do not demean turks thank you for your clear statement however On Jun 5, 2016 6:33 PM, <[email protected]> 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. > > -- > tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] > To unsubscribe or change other settings go to > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk > -- tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
