Jacob Appelbaum

Jacob Appelbaum is an independent computer security researcher and hacker.

He has been a core member of the Tor Project, and the co-founder of the San Francisco hackerspace Noisebridge. His resume includes working with Greenpeace, Wikileaks, The Open Society Institute, Tactical Tech, The Ruckus Society, The Rainforest Action Network and others.

He is a contributor to Julian Assange’s 2012 book Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet along with Andy Müller-Maguhn and Jérémie Zimmermann.

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