| Jake's response: http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1soorlp /via https://twitter.com/ioerror/status/739731362404536320 I note that he does not deny any of Nick's factual claims. The denial is only of "criminal sexual misconduct", which is a legal claim (what misconduct counts as criminal?) rather than a denial of the specific factual allegations made @ http://jacobappelbaum.net/ (however they may be legally construed). I can understand why Jake may not want to engage with them in detail — doing so would almost certainly raise more questions than it answers — but AFAICT, this is functionally a non-denial denial. One thing I don't understand from Nick's piece (etc.) is whether the referenced "plagiarism" means only Jake insisting on alphabetical author order (thus making it seem like he did most of the work when he didn't) or something else. <s>It's also saddening to read of yet another of us committing suicide, whatever the circumstances.</s> Having read other comments, I now realize what this referred to. I suppose it's fortunate that it is not yet another, but that loss is no less saddening for the time passed since. (FWIW, I've stayed with that person's partner at one point. They were incredibly kind to me at time that was difficult for both of us.) … Repeating two comments I made on Nick's Medium article: 1. Nick: in my limited experiences with you, you’ve been one of the most warm & welcoming people in the hacker community.
I hope that at some point you get back your health and manage to resume attending conferences. Take care of yourself. 2. Jake espouses very hard line principles of source protection, right to speak, fighting bad speech with more speech, etc. I generally agree with him on those principles. (I’d rather not go into my opinion on his personality.) If Jake had gotten the kind of threats from Nick that Nick describes getting from Jake, there’s no way in hell he’d comply. He’d probably have an aneurism, irretrievably commit the documents to public view after thoroughly anonymizing them, and make it very, very public. Kudos to Nick for both protecting his source and trying to handle this issue with tact. It’s indefensible that Nick was treated this way for doing so, and a loss to the community for him to have come to harm for it. |