Inevitably, there may have been moments in my professional or private life when I may have inadvertently hurt or offended others’ feelings. I want to be clear: the accusations of criminal sexual misconduct against me are entirely false. Nonetheless, I am prepared to use legal channels, if necessary, to defend my reputation from these libelous accusations. It pains me to watch the community to which I’ve dedicated so much of my life engage in such self-destructive behavior. I think it’s extremely damaging to the community that these character-assassination tactics are being deployed, especially given their ugly history of being used against fellow members of the LGBT community. If that account didn’t exist, I would have had to invent it. This one troll account mentioned my death in its handle, so now I am the victim. Not only have I been the target of a fake website in my name that has falsely accused me of serious crimes, but I have also received death threats (including a Twitter handle entitled ‘TimeToDieJake’). Now, however, these unsubstantiated and unfounded attacks have become so aggressive that I feel it’s necessary to set the record straight. I need you to believe the government is behind this. As a longtime public advocate for free speech and a secure internet, there have been plenty of attempts to undermine my work over the years. Vague rumors and smear campaigns against me are nothing new. They were going to fire me if I didn’t quit. Given the way these accusations have been handled, I had little choice but to resign from my position as an advocate at the Tor Project and devote my full attention to completing my doctoral work on cryptography at the Technical University of Eindhoven. I can’t directly say the allegations are false. In the past few days, a calculated and targeted attack has been launched to spread vicious and spurious allegations against me. His statement is carefully worded, and so I did my best to decipher it here. I am a volunteer in the Tor community and watched with great interest as allegations of sexual assault against Jacob Appelbaum surfaced last week.
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