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Yeah, the accusations started in June 2016.To add some context to this: Appelbaum was thrown out of the Tor project after getting accused of rape by a bunch of people around 2016. The entire board of directors resigned over this, too. A lot of these accounts imploded later, but not before Appelbaum was kicked out - I specifically remember that one account's author didn't even know that her story was added to the site hosting the accusations and claimed that it got exaggerated. They tried to get Daniel Bernstein too, but that didn't end up working. Fun fact: The guy acting like a mongoloid in the replies is musl libc's Rich Felker, who is otherwise pretty sane. The tech industry really is tiny.
The situation was sketchy as fuck, but it's pretty hard to track down all the sources nowadays.
A website jacobappelbaum[dot]net was launched which contained pictures of Appelbaum and when you clicked one of those pics then an anonymous story of an alleged victim popped up.


Here are a few screenshots of those allegations:


Jake with his manipulative powers lured me into the bath tub and he gave me an nonconsensual washing which lasted for a minute

Edit - "he started giving another friend a really aggressive shoulder massage with no invitation, plus a million stories that I'd heard through backchannels"


Jake said some mean words:

Jake was mean and yelled at me:

Jake kissed me on the mouth in public; I am personally very wary of communicable disease, especially cold sores and herpes


"During the main course, he used me to tell a joke. He picked up my spoon, a chunk of meat off my plane, said "it's the terrorists flying into the World Trade Center"
and made airplane noises/motions with it until I opened my mouth and let him feed me"


One person wasn't anonymous Nick Farr.
"Every night, I came back to my hotel room, a typewritten note on my pillow stating,
"Don't make us use extreme measures. Hand it all over.""





More can be found here:
And then a week later Leigh Honeywell came up with her rape story that happened about 10 years earlier.