Jacob Appelbaum Concepts

Surveillance Valley: The Rise of the Military-Digital Complex

by Yasha Levine · 6 Feb 2018 · 474pp · 130,575 words

in the hall and pledges her allegiance to Tor’s core mission: to make the Internet safe from surveillance. Up there, emceeing the event, stands Jacob Appelbaum, “Jake,” as everyone calls him. He is the true star of the show, and he lavishes praise on the new director. “We found someone who

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names—you’re fucked.” A few people on stage look embarrassed, not believing a word. But the audience laps it up. They love Jacob Appelbaum. Everyone at 32c3 loves Jacob Appelbaum. Appelbaum is the most storied member of the Tor Project. After Edward Snowden and Julian Assange, he is arguably the most famous personality

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on one of the most disorienting government projects of the Internet Era: the weaponization of privacy.6 The Box A few weeks after I glimpsed Jacob Appelbaum at 32c3, I arrived home in the United States to find a heavy brown box waiting for me on my doorstep. It was postmarked from

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developer who could help rebrand the Tor Project as a group of rebels that made Uncle Sam tremble in his jackboots. A Hero Is Born Jacob Appelbaum was born in 1983 on April Fools’ Day. He grew up in Santa Rosa, a city just north of San Francisco, in a bohemian family

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the role of official Tor Project spokesman and began promoting Tor as a powerful weapon against government oppression. While Dingledine focused on running the business, Jacob Appelbaum jet-setted to exotic locations around the world to evangelize and spread the word. He’d hit ten countries in a month and not bat

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control. In 2010, he snagged the support of Julian Assange, a silver-haired hacker who wanted to free the world of secrets. Tor Gets Radical Jacob Appelbaum and Julian Assange had met in Berlin sometime in 2005, just as the mysterious Australian hacker was getting ready to set WikiLeaks in motion. Assange

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from the dangers of Big Brother.”87 As for Tor’s deep, ongoing ties to the US government? Well, what of them? To any doubters, Jacob Appelbaum was held up as living, breathing proof of the radical independence of the Tor Project. “If the users or developers he meets worry that Tor

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played a role in some of these trainings, taking part in a series of Arab Blogger sessions in Yemen, Tunisia, Jordan, Lebanon, and Bahrain, where Jacob Appelbaum taught opposition activists how to use Tor to get around government censorship.98 “Today was fantastic… really a fantastic meeting of minds in the Arab

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the payroll, adding a dedicated crew of developers and managers who saw their job in messianic terms: to free the Internet of government surveillance.104 Jacob Appelbaum, too, was doing well. Claiming that harassment from the US government was too much to bear, he spent most of his time in Berlin in

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Cory Doctorow, a best-selling young adult science fiction author whose books about a totalitarian government’s surveillance were read and admired by Laura Poitras, Jacob Appelbaum, Roger Dingledine, and Edward Snowden.122 Doctorow was a huge personality in the crypto movement who could fill giant conference halls at privacy conferences. He

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Systems, a for-profit corporation run by Moxie Marlinspike, a tall, lanky cryptographer with a head full of dreadlocks. Marlinspike was an old friend of Jacob Appelbaum, and he played a similar radical game. He remained cryptic about his real name and identity, told stories of being targeted by the FBI, and

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that he believed he was fully protected by Tor. He believed in Tor’s claims that were backed up by Edward Snowden and promoted by Jacob Appelbaum. He believed that everything he did in the murkiness of the dark web would have no bearing on him in the real world—he believed

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Like: Daniel Ellsberg,” Tor Project (blog), December 26, 2015, https://blog.torproject.org/blog/what-tor-supporter-looks-daniel-ellsberg. 71. “Q&A Marathon with Jacob Appelbaum and Roger Dingledine,” YouTube video, 3:59:35, filmed July 24, 2013, at Technical University of Munich, posted by zerwas2ky, July 31, 2013, https://www

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ignore my reporting: “I don’t have time for jerks who use that nonsense to service their other agenda. Boring waste of time,” Tor developer Jacob Appelbaum tweeted (@ioerror, Twitter post, October 26, 2014, 8:21 am, http://web.archive.org/web/20150623005502/https:/twitter.com/ioerror/status/526393121630740480). Jillian York, director

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(@puellavulnerata), Twitter post, December 19, 2015, 1:03 p.m., https://web.archive.org/web/20170808234142/https://twitter.com/puellavulnerata/status/678168846897934340. 3. Roger Dingledine, Jacob Appelbaum, and Laura Poitras, “State of the Onion,” 31c3, December 30, 2014, https://media.ccc.de/v/31c3_-_6251_-_en_-_saal_1_-_201412301400_-_state_of_the

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_onion_-_jacob_-_arma. 4. Roger Dingledine, Jacob Appelbaum, Mike Perry, Shari Steele, and Alison Macrina, “State of the Onion,” 32c3, December 28, 2015, https://media.ccc.de/v/32c3-7307-state_of_the

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_onion#video. 5. Nicole Perlroth, “Tor Project Confirms Sexual Misconduct Claims against Employee,” New York Times, July 27, 2016. 6. Jacob Appelbaum’s most recent salary information comes from a separation agreement Tor Project sent to him following the sexual harassment allegations, a document that was subsequently

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Tor Project Funding—Broadcasting Board of Governors,” Surveillance Valley, May 2, 2017, https://surveillancevalley.com/blog/notes-bbg-cia-cutout-funding-of-tor-project. 8. Jacob Appelbaum gave a strange rambling defense of Tor employees taking money from the Pentagon and said categorically that he would never take CIA money. That’s

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things, and this is a serious commitment that the whole Tor community gets behind, which is that we will never ever put in a backdoor,” Jacob Appelbaum said in a 2013 talk, relating a story about how the Department of Justice once tried but failed to get Tor to tap the network

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for the federal government. Roger Dingledine and Jacob Appelbaum, “The Tor Network: We’re Living in Interesting Times,” 30c3, December 31, 2013, https://media.ccc.de/v/30C3_-_5423_-_en_-_saal_1_-_201312272030_-_the

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possible.” Brad Stone, “Aid Urged for Groups Fighting Internet Censors,” New York Times, January 20, 2010. 65. Greenberg, This Machine Kills Secrets, 152–158. 66. Jacob Appelbaum, “The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand,” January 12, 2003, accessed February 4, 2005, https://web.archive.org/web/20050204052358/http:// appelbaum.net:80/weblog/index.pl

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.” Greenberg, This Machine Kills Secrets. 83. Nathaniel Rich, “The American WikiLeaks Hacker,” Rolling Stone, December 1, 2010. 84. Amy Goodman, “Part 2: Daniel Ellsberg and Jacob Appelbaum on the NDAA, WikiLeaks and Unconstitutional Surveillance,” Democracy Now, February 6, 2013, https://www.democracynow.org/2013/2/6/part_2_daniel_ellsberg_and

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_jacob _appelbaum_on_the_ndaa_wikileaks_and_unconstitutional_surveillance. 85. Rich, “American WikiLeaks Hacker.” 86. The American Civil Liberties Union partnered with Tor (“Privacy Groups Announce Developer

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, ACLU of Northern California, February 4, 2011, https://www.aclunc.org/news/privacy-groups-announce-developer-challenge-mobile-apps). Teach-in at Whitney Museum featuring “Jacob Appelbaum, computer security researcher, privacy advocate, hacker, and human rights activist” (“Laura Poitras: Surveillance Teach-In,” Whitney Museum, April 20, 2012, http://web.archive.org/web

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message sent to Ken Berman, “July Monthly Report from Tor,” August 10, 2010. 91. Despite telling people he was being hunted by the US government, Jacob Appelbaum visited the BBG’s offices in Washington, DC, in 2011. Andrew Lewman, email message sent to Ken Berman and Kelly DeYoe, “RE: Tor Contract,” October

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Freedom? There’ll be an App for That,” AFP News, June 12, 2012, https://sg.news.yahoo.com/online-freedom-app-coming-185419926.html. 98. “Jacob Appelbaum Presents Tor at Arab Bloggers Workshop 2009,” Global Voices, December 9, 2009; Andrew Lewman, email message sent to Kelly DeYoe, “RE: contract BBGCON1807S6441,” November 8

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://blog.torproject.org/blog/trip-report-arab-bloggers-meeting-oct-3-7. Tor’s Middle East trainings began in 2009. In December of that year, Jacob Appelbaum did a big tour of the Middle East before heading to the end-of-the-year activist blowout at the Chaos Computer Club conference in

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the Arab Bloggers Conference in Beirut. Andrew Lewman, email message sent to Kelly DeYoe, “BBGCON1807S644.” 99. Jacob Appelbaum (@ioerror), Twitter posts, December 9-11, 2009, https://twitter.com/ioerror/status/6502200803, https://twitter.com/ioerror/status /6572987080; Jacob Appelbaum (@ioerror), Twitter post, 8:18am, December 9, 2009, https://twitter.com/ioerror/status/6500619633. 100

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Technology Fund, accessed May 22, 2017, https://www.opentech.fund/project /leap-encryption-access-project); a WikiLeaks whistleblowing alternative called GlobaLeaks, endorsed by Tor’s Jacob Appelbaum, received nearly $350,000. The platform was used by a variety of organizations in line with the State Department’s regime-change operations around the

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censorship of radio and Internet, 234–236 Cold War origins of, 231–233 Consolidated Appropriations Act, 254 Internet Freedom policies and digital weapons, 234–236 Jacob Appelbaum and, 241–242 Radio Free Asia, 258 Russian Deployment Plan, 236–239 Tor, WikiLeaks, and US Intelligence, 245–247 Tor Project funding, 222–224, 228

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, 245, 258 guerrilla activity: US clandestine ops in Vietnam, 19–20 hacker community defense origins of the Tor Project, 225–226 hacking Tor, 263–265 Jacob Appelbaum’s history, 239–242 Tor Project, 220–222 working for the government, 225–226 Hackers’ Conference, 115–116 Hafner, Katie, 60 Halliday, John T., 26

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–190 PredPol Inc., 165–168 PRISM surveillance program, 192–196, 265 privacy Google and Gmail tracking users, 157–163 government funding for Tor, 213–215 Jacob Appelbaum, 221–222 Open Technology Fund, 256 Snowden’s views on, 200 32C3, 220 Tor Project’s military connections, 223–228 weaponization of, 222 See also

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, 185–187 global NSA spy implants in the Internet backbones, 191–192 government involvement in supporting and cracking Tor, 264–265 history of surveillance, 75 Jacob Appelbaum and, 222 NSA PRISM program, 193–196 political interests and philosophy, 199–201, 269 privacy movement, 259 Signal and Tor endorsement, 258 the Internet as

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, 206–211, 252–253 enhancing US government power, 223–224 government hacking and cracking, 263–264 government support for, 213–215 investigation of, 222–223 Jacob Appelbaum and, 221–222 lack of protection against surveillance, 213–214 Open Technology Fund, 256–257 origins and creators, 225–227 Silicon Valley support, 212–213

This Machine Kills Secrets: Julian Assange, the Cypherpunks, and Their Fight to Empower Whistleblowers

by Andy Greenberg · 12 Sep 2012 · 461pp · 125,845 words

. JIM BELL Engineer and libertarian whose 1997 essay “Assassination Politics” described a system of using encryption to facilitate anonymous, untraceable, and crowd-funded contract killings. JACOB APPELBAUM Activist, hacker, and developer for the Tor anonymity network who befriended Julian Assange and became the WikiLeaks’ primary American associate. PAUL SYVERSON Logician and cryptographer

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things like that. Let the Africans kill each other,” he says flatly. “I don’t have those kinds of political interests.” When I later ask Jacob Appelbaum, one of the only Americans to associate openly with WikiLeaks, about his thoughts on BlackNet, he sees things more simply. “Tim May is a fucking

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be killed? As this book went to press, Jim Bell was scheduled for release from prison on March 12, 2012. CHAPTER 4 THE ONION ROUTERS Jacob Appelbaum drops a black, hard plastic container the size of a small suitcase on the conference table in a sterile-chic conference room in MIT’s

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many as ten thousand nodes, vastly strengthening its network. Its other secret weapon is a small army of globe-trotting developers. One of them is Jacob Appelbaum. Since Appelbaum joined the nonprofit as a staffer in 2008, the young anarchist has served as one of Tor’s primary coders as well as

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information. And it’s Mudge’s move. The Collateral Murder video was only the overture to Assange’s magnum opus of leaks. Just days after Jacob Appelbaum’s call-to-arms speech at the HOPE conference, the first wave hit: seventy-six thousand documents from the Afghan War, detailing every significant action

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user’s browser. The Wall Street Journal’s leak conduit, called Safehouse, was built so ineptly that the security community declared it dead on arrival. Jacob Appelbaum, who had been supportive of other leaking copycats, pointed out that Safehouse was vulnerable to an attack that would allow a network snoop to easily

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to represent her in the legal fight to keep her private data private. Soon it was apparent she wasn’t alone: the online information of Jacob Appelbaum, the Dutch WikiLeaks associate Rop Gonggrijp, and likely Julian Assange and Bradley Manning were all caught up in the same dragnet. The U.S. Department

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’s skepticism comes pouring out. The first darkly worded statement is made by a member of the audience that Domscheit-Berg considers a longtime friend: Jacob Appelbaum. “I think it would be really fantastic if everything you do is free software, and I want to advocate that you make sure everything you

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. He was an old acquaintance of Berg’s and a highly skilled network engineer, one whose caution regarding privacy dwarfed that of even Assange or Jacob Appelbaum. His name has never been publicly linked with WikiLeaks, and many within the group don’t know it either. To most, he is simply known

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Assange for his consent. But only one event has been publicly cited by both men as a clear spark for their conflict. When I asked Jacob Appelbaum, he summarized it: “Basically, Daniel never should have gotten married.” Berg met Anke Domscheit at a falafel joint in Berlin in February 2010. She was

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Website http://www.bop.gov/iloc2/LocateInmate.jsp CHAPTER 4: THE ONION ROUTERS those are the systems required or used by the current government oppressors Jacob Appelbaum writing on Twitter, February 19, 2011. “the Arab dictator’s favorite uplink” Ibid. “I wanted to meet interesting and stimulating people of an ancient culture

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blocked in China.” Tor Project blog, available at https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-partially-blocked-china “My hatred of authority was pretty much solidified” Jacob Appelbaum. “Personal experiences bringing technology and new media to disaster areas.” Speech at the Chaos Communication Congress, December 2005, available here: http://events.ccc.de/congress

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” Julian Assange to John Young, January 7, 2007, available at http://cryptome.org/wikileaks/wikileaks-leak2.htm spreading free software like a hacker Johnny Appleseed Jacob Appelbaum. “Personal experiences bringing technology and new media to disaster areas.” Speech at the Chaos Communication Congress, December 2005, available here: http://events.ccc.de/congress

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, turned up the volume, and refused to change the channel Ibid. A man beaten in the shower. Nightly curfews, women raped. Xeni Jardin interview with Jacob Appelbaum. “Katrina: ‘Rape, murder, beatings’ in Astrodome, say evacuees.” BoingBoing.net, September 7, 2005. “The same thing, over and over again. The disconnection. The lack of

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humanity.” Jacob Appelbaum. “Personal experiences bringing technology and new media to disaster areas.” Speech at the Chaos Communication Congress, December 2005, available here: http://events.ccc.de/congress

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. “Tribute to Hippie Hacker Holland.” Wired.com, July 31, 2001. even when authorities are standing over the user, rubber hose in hand, demanding the key Jacob Appelbaum. “A discussion about modern disk encryption systems.” Speech at the Chaos Communication Congress, December 2005, available here: http://events.ccc.de/congress/2005/fahrplan/speakers

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Frontier Foundation Deeplinks Blog at EFF.org, June 7, 2011. “Pro tip: if you’re going to create a document leaking Website—have a clue!” Jacob Appelbaum writing on Twitter, May 5, 2011. “They reserve the right to sell you out” Fakhoury. It was an agreement from the Bulgarian Department of Energy

The Hacker and the State: Cyber Attacks and the New Normal of Geopolitics

by Ben Buchanan · 25 Feb 2020 · 443pp · 116,832 words

deny spying on Merkel, and it is likely that the activity occurred, though the claim of embassy-based espionage is not confirmed beyond this article. Jacob Appelbaum, Nikolaus Blome, Hubert Gude, Ralf Neukirch, Rene Pfister, Laura Poitras, and Marcel Rosenbach, “The NSA’s Secret Spy Hub in Berlin,” Der Spiegel, October 27

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Hopkins, Nick Davies, and James Ball, “Mastering the Internet: How GCHQ Set Out to Spy on the World Wide Web,” Guardian, June 21, 2013. 57. Jacob Appelbaum, Laura Poitras, Marcel Rosenbach, Christian Stöcker, Jörg Schindler, and Holger Stark, “Inside TAO: Documents Reveal Top NSA Hacking Unit,” Der Spiegel, December 20, 2013; “New

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the Full Document,” Guardian, October 4, 2013. 63. “Mobile Apps Doubleheader: BADASS Angry Birds,” Government Communications Headquarters internal presentation deck, n.d., published online alongside Jacob Appelbaum, Aaron Gibson, Claudio Guarnieri, Andy Müller-Maguhn, Laura Poitras, Marcel Rosenbach, Leif Ryge, Hilmar Schmundt, and Michael Sontheimer, “The Digital Arms Race: NSA Preps America

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Agency internal presentation, July 16, 2009, published online alongside Marquis-Boire et al., “XKEYSCORE”; “What Is HACIENDA?” Government Communications Headquarters internal presentation, published online alongside Jacob Appelbaum, Monika Ermert, Julian Kirsch, Henrik Moltke, Laura Poitras, and Christian Grothoff, “The HACIENDA Program for Internet Colonization,” Heise / c’t Magazin, August 15, 2014; “Pull

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of Vulnerabilities,” US Government Accountability Office, October 19, 2018. 36. “BYZANTINE HADES: An Evolution of Collection,” National Security Agency presentation to SIGDEV conference, published alongside Jacob Appelbaum, Aaron Gibson, Claudio Guarnieri, Andy Müller-Maguhn, et al., “The Digital Arms Race: NSA Preps America for Future Battle,” Der Spiegel, January 17, 2015, 3

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. 37. “Chinese Exfiltrate Sensitive Military Technology,” National Security Agency presentation deck, published alongside Jacob Appelbaum, Aaron Gibson, Claudio Guarnieri, Andy Müller-Maguhn, et al., “The Digital Arms Race: NSA Preps America for Future Battle,” Der Spiegel, January 17, 2015, 3

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. Nakasone,” Joint Force Quarterly 92, no. 1 (2019): 7. 7. “BYZANTINE HADES: An Evolution of Collection,” National Security Agency presentation to SIGDEV conference, published alongside Jacob Appelbaum, Aaron Gibson, Claudio Guarnieri, Andy Müller-Maguhn, et al., “The Digital Arms Race: NSA Preps America for Future Battle,” Der Spiegel, January 17, 2015, 3

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in non-Five Eyes countries as they can for use in future operations. “What Is HACIENDA?” UK Government Communications Headquarters internal presentation, published online alongside Jacob Appelbaum, Monika Ermert, Julian Kirsch, Henrik Moltke, Laura Poitras, and Christian Grothoff, “The HACIENDA Program for Internet Colonization,” Heise / c’t Magazin, August 15, 2014. 9

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Collection,” 3–27. 11. For more on the link between these efforts and cyber defense, see “TUTELAGE 411,” National Security Agency presentation deck, published alongside Jacob Appelbaum, Aaron Gibson, Andy Müller-Maguhn, Claudio Guarnieri, et al., “The Digital Arms Race: NSA Preps America for Future Battle,” Der Spiegel, January 17, 2015; Ben

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-privacy-laws. 60. theshadowbrokers, “OH LORDY! Comey Wanna Cry Edition.” 61. theshadowbrokers, “OH LORDY!” 62. Jacob Appelbaum, Judith Horchert, and Christian Stoecker, “Shopping for Spy Gear: Catalog Advertises NSA Toolbox,” Der Spiegel, December 29, 2013. 63. Jacob Appelbaum, Nikolaus Blome, Hubert Gude, Ralf Neukirch, et al., “Embassy Espionage: The NSA’s Secret Spy Hub

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in Berlin,” November 4, 2013; Jacob Appelbaum, A. Gibson, J. Goetz, V. Kabisch, et al., “NSA Targets the Privacy-Conscious,” Das Erste, July 3, 2014. For more on these non-Snowden leaks,

Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World

by Joseph Menn · 3 Jun 2019 · 302pp · 85,877 words

Benfey / Deth Vegetable Sam Anthony / Tweety Fish Peiter Zatko / Mudge Laird Brown / Oxblood Ruffin Josh Buchbinder / Sir Dystic Christien Rioux / Dildog Adam O’Donnell / Javaman Jacob Appelbaum / IOerror Kemal Akman / Mixter Patrick Kroupa / Lord Digital cDc Ninja Strike Force Chris Wysopal / Weld Pond Window Snyder / Rosie the Riveter Limor Fried / Lady Ada

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US military defense and still-undisclosed offensive hacks that headed off worse violence in the Middle East. Even more famous in recent years has been Jacob Appelbaum, alias IOerror. The charismatic American face of Tor, the most important tool for preserving privacy on the net, Jake served as one of the last

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a Silicon Valley office park than hanging out with young activists. The apparent answer to Tor’s public-relations problem arrived in the person of Jacob Appelbaum, known in person as Jake and on Twitter as @IOerror, a reference to a malfunction in input/output processing. Jake was young and good-looking

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. “Like much of the hacker community, we were troubled to hear the allegations of sexual abuse, manipulation, and bullying leveled against one of our members, Jacob Appelbaum, A.K.A. ioerror,” it began. We’re also aware that the Tor Project is conducting an internal investigation, and encourage anyone with relevant testimony

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://medium.com/@nickf4rr/hi-im-nick-farr-nickf4rr-35c32f13da4d. “most serious public statement in more than a decade”: “CULT OF THE DEAD COW Statement on Jacob Appelbaum / ioerror” (press release), June 6, 2016, http://w3.cultdeadcow.com/cms/2016/06/cult-of-the-dead-cow-statement-on

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-jacob-appelbaum-ioerror.html. “In a personal post on Medium”: Oxblood Ruffin, “Public Figures & Anonymous Victims,” Medium, June 8, 2016, https://medium.com/@oxbloodruffin/public-figures-anonymous-

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Hacktivismo spinoff from cDc. But then Akman brought in the man who invented FinFisher spyware, still used by repressive regimes against dissidents. Courtesy Declan McCullagh Jacob Appelbaum became one of the last close aides to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, with whom he spoke at a 2011 press conference touting the release of

The End of Secrecy: The Rise and Fall of WikiLeaks

by The "Guardian", David Leigh and Luke Harding · 1 Feb 2011 · 322pp · 99,066 words

WikiLeaks supporter James Ball – WikiLeaks data expert Vaughan Smith – former Grenadier Guards captain, founder of the Frontline Club and Assange’s host at Ellingham Hall Jacob Appelbaum – WikiLeaks’ representative in the US Daniel Ellsberg – Vietnam war whistleblower, WikiLeaks supporter Daniel Domscheit-Berg – German programmer and WikiLeaks technical architect (aka Daniel Schmitt) Mikael

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as “super smart”; not a nerdy hacker but someone unusual and flamboyant. Interestingly, some of the world’s most talented programmers come from broken families. Jacob Appelbaum, who would become WikiLeaks’ representative in the US, says he was the son of a paranoid schizophrenic mother and heroin addict father. He spent much

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all have military-grade encryption: if seized, the data on them cannot be read, even directly off the disk. The volunteer WikiLeaks hacker, Seattle-based Jacob Appelbaum, boasts that he will destroy any laptop that has been let out of his sight, for fear that it might have been bugged. None of

Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security, and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance

by Julia Angwin · 25 Feb 2014 · 422pp · 104,457 words

fact that it had fought—and lost—a secret court order demanding the e-mail addresses of people who had corresponded with a WikiLeaks volunteer, Jacob Appelbaum, in the course of two years. Challenging the order was “rather expensive, but we felt it was the right thing to do,” said Sonic’s

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was standing under the world clock tower on Alexanderplatz in Berlin, feeling nervous. I had just arrived in the city and had arranged to meet Jacob Appelbaum, the computer security researcher whose e-mail had been secretly investigated by the U.S. government after his involvement as a volunteer for WikiLeaks was

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configured Adium to work with Tor and Jabber. The only reason I was able to do any of this is because the computer security researcher Jacob Appelbaum walked me through each step and told me where to click and what to type in the settings. And yet this cobbled-together mash of

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. government funded some projects, such as Tor, in the name of Internet freedom, while at the same time the Justice Department was investigating Tor developer Jacob Appelbaum for his involvement in WikiLeaks. And Phil Zimmermann, the founder of Pretty Good Privacy, went the capitalist route. He sold PGP to Network Associates in

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going, nor would we have any tools to protect it. Among the many who have guided my work and thinking are Ashkan Soltani, Dave Campbell, Jacob Appelbaum, Brian Kennish, Jon Callas, Michael J. J. Tiffany, Mike Perry, Christopher Soghoian, Dan Kaminsky, and Jonathan Mayer. Special thanks to John Gilmore, who offered my

Engineering Security

by Peter Gutmann

ssladmin?”, Kurt Seifried, 17 April 2010, http://keyboardcowboy.ca/2010/04/whos-letting-me-become-ssladmin/. [260] “Detecting Certificate Authority compromises and web browser collusion”, Jacob Appelbaum, 22 March 2011, https://blog.torproject.org/blog/detecting-certificate-authority-compromises-and-web-browsercollusion. [261] “Report of incident on 15-MAR-2011”, 23 March

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/en_us/blogs/microsoft-revokestrust-28-its-own-certificates-071012. [282] “Detecting collusion between vendors and CAs: Revocation isn’t enough and everyone knows it”, Jacob Appelbaum, 18 March 2011, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=643056. [283] “Firefox Blocking Fraudulent Certificates”, Mozilla Security Blog, 22 March 2011, https://blog

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the cryptography@metzdowd.com mailing list, message-ID 20090503205759.D7C2E34378@absinthe.tinho.net, 3 May 2009. [143] “Detecting Certificate Authority compromises and web browser collusion”, Jacob Appelbaum, 22 March 2011, https://blog.torproject.org/blog/detecting-certificate-authority-compromises-and-web-browsercollusion. [144] “Results after 30 days of (almost) no trusted CAs

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, http://eprint.iacr.org/2009/111 (also submitted to Crypto’09). [438] “MD5 considered harmful today: Creating a rogue CA certificate”, Alexander Sotirov, Marc Stevens, Jacob Appelbaum, Arjen Lenstra, David Molnar, Dag Arne Osvik and Benne de Weger, presentation at the 25 th Chaos Communication Congress (25C3), December 2008, http://events.ccc

The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty

by Benjamin H. Bratton · 19 Feb 2016 · 903pp · 235,753 words

.net/. The conflicts involved, however, are impossible to tally in real time. In their book Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet, Julian Assange, Jacob Appelbaum, and Andy Muller-Maguhn are alarmed that “Siemens is marketing a platform for intelligence agencies that does actually produce automated actions. So when target A

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Secrets are lies. —The Circle, company policy1 Surveillance is theft. —Writers against Mass Surveillance2 Autonomy is abstraction. —Chris Anderson, 3D Robotics3 Convenience means not secure. —Jacob Appelbaum, Tor project4 Fear is awareness. —Charles Manson5 68. Seeing The Stack We Have, Stacks to Come The Stack we have means: borderlines are rewritten, dashed

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published December 10, 2013. 3. From Chris Anderson's talk at Google, Authors@Google: Chris Anderson (2012), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3grzYoJ2oPQ. 4. Jacob Appelbaum, “Art as Evidence” (panel at Transmediale, Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt, Berlin, January 30, 2014), http://www.transmediale.de/content/presentation-by-jacob-applebaum-at

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://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/08/14/agent-of-intelligence-how-a-deviant-philosopher-built-palantir-a-cia-funded-data-mining-juggernaut/2/. 21. Jacob Appelbaum, Laura Poitras, and Trevor Paglen, “Art as Evidence” (panel at Transmediale, Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt, Berlin, 2014), http://www.transmediale.de/content/presentation-by

What's Yours Is Mine: Against the Sharing Economy

by Tom Slee · 18 Nov 2015 · 265pp · 69,310 words

towards the giants of Silicon Valley.13 For example, in the fallout from the Snowden revelations about NSA spying on the Internet, computer security researcher Jacob Appelbaum gave a keynote about the surveillance state at the 29C3 (“Chaos Communication Congress”) hacker conference in December 2012 and included this ringing encomium for open

Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World

by Bruce Schneier · 2 Mar 2015 · 598pp · 134,339 words

(11 Feb 2014), “Eight questions PCLOB should ask about Section 702,” Just Security, https://justsecurity.org/7001/questions-pclob-section-702. the NSA targets people: Jacob Appelbaum et al. (3 Jul 2014), “NSA targets the privacy-conscious,” Panorama, http://daserste.ndr.de/panorama/aktuell/nsa230_page-1.html. the NSA chains together

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hacking unit,” Der Spiegel, http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/the-nsa-uses-powerful-toolbox-in-effort-to-spy-on-global-networks-a-940969.html. Jacob Appelbaum, Judith Horchert, and Christian Stöcker (29 Dec 2013), “Shopping for spy gear: Catalog advertises NSA toolbox,” Der Spiegel, http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/catalog

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of signals intelligence,” 7th Privacy Law Scholars Conference, Washington, D.C., http://www.law.berkeley.edu/plsc.htm. the NSA spied on the cell phone: Jacob Appelbaum et al. (23 Oct 2013), “Berlin complains: Did US tap Chancellor Merkel’s mobile phone?” Der Spiegel, http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/merkel-calls

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for wiretapping on the Internet,” Privacy Legal Scholars Conference, Berkeley, California, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2312107. the NSA eavesdropped on: Jacob Appelbaum et al. (23 Oct 2013), “Berlin complains: Did US tap Chancellor Merkel’s mobile phone?” Der Spiegel, http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/merkel-calls