Jacob Appelbaum

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Film & TV

USA

Jacob Appelbaum (born 1 April 1983) is an American independent journalist, computer security researcher, artist, and hacker. Appelbaum studied at the Eindhoven University of Technology and was a core member of the Tor project, a free software network designed to provide online anonymity, until he stepped down from his position over sexual abuse allegations which surfaced in 2016. He was among…

Known for

• Nobody Wants to Talk About Jacob Appelbaum — Self2023
• Risk — Self2017
• Everything Is Under Control — Himself2015
• Citizenfour — Self2014
• Inside the Dark Web — Himself2014

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Active from

1983-04-01

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47

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Jacob Appelbaum is an independent computer security researcher and hacker. He is currently employed by the University of Washington, and is a core member of the Tor Project (TorProject.org). Appelbaum has represented Wikileaks at the 2010 Hope conference. He has subsequently been repeatedly targeted by US law enforcement agencies, who obtained a court order for his Twitter account data, detained him 12 times at the US border after trips abroad, and seized a laptop and several mobile phones. <a h

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Jacob

Gender

male

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

California

Occupation

journalist

Employer

WikiLeaks

Languages spoken

English language

Native language

English language

Religion

atheism

Field of work

Internet privacy

Official website

www.appelbaum.net

Image

Jacob Appelbaum 16.11.2019 Sintra.jpg

Residence

Berlin

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