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On 10 June, a woman whom three witnesses claimed to have seen being abused,<ref name="Unwanted Sexual Advances Described" /> denied the abuse allegations.<ref name="DailyDot Baehring denial">{{cite web |last1=Cameron |first1=Dell |last2=O'Neill |first2=Patrick Howell |title=Woman refutes claims that Jacob Appelbaum sexually harassed her |website=The Daily Dot |date=10 June 2016 |url=http://www.dailydot.com/layer8/jacob-appelbaum-jill-bahring-statement/ |access-date=12 July 2016 |archive-date=15 July 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160715001214/http://www.dailydot.com/layer8/jacob-appelbaum-jill-bahring-statement/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In a statement released by Gizmodo journalist William Turton, she wrote that her experience was distorted and reported without her consent.<ref name="Gizmodo Baehring denial">{{cite web | last=Turton | first=William | title=Jill Bahring: I Was Not Assaulted by Jacob Appelbaum | website=Gizmodo | date=9 June 2016 | url=https://gizmodo.com/jill-bahring-i-was-not-assaulted-by-jacob-appelbaum-1781684838 | access-date=12 July 2016}}</ref> On 17 June 2016, activists, journalists and legal professionals supporting Appelbaum signed a document defending his right to due process, and deploring the story's treatment by social media.<ref name="Die Presse und der Pranger"/><ref name="faz.net"/><ref name="ourresponse.org"/> In June 2016, the façade of the building in which Appelbaum's Berlin apartment is located was defaced in English and German with [[graffiti]] directly referencing the allegations.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Winterbauer|first1=Stefan|title=Jacob Appelbaum und Gina-Lisa Lohfink: Sex als Ware und Waffe im Netz und in den Medien|url=http://meedia.de/2016/06/13/jacob-appelbaum-und-gina-lisa-lohfink-sex-als-ware-und-waffe-im-netz-und-in-den-medien/|website=Meedia|access-date=17 June 2016|date=13 June 2016|language=de|trans-title=Jacob Appelbaum and Gina-Lisa Lohfink: Sex as a commodity and weapon on the net and in the media}}</ref>
In July 2016, the Tor Project announced it had completed a seven-week investigation led by a hired investigator. According to Shari Steele, Tor Project "did everything in our power" to treat Mr. Appelbaum fairly, but "we determined that the allegations against him appear to be true."<ref name=":0">{{cite news
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}}</ref><ref name=":1" /> According to her summary of the investigation, which was not released, "many people inside and outside the Tor Project have reported incidents of being humiliated, intimidated, bullied, and frightened" by Jacob Appelbaum, and that "several experienced unwanted sexually aggressive behavior from him."<ref name=":1" /> Steele made no mention of rape claims published on the anonymous website.<ref name="'Sam' and 'Forest' Reveal Identities" /><ref name="Unwanted Sexual Advances Described" />
In July 2016, ''[[Süddeutsche Zeitung]]'' reported that allegations against Appelbaum had been known in Berlin hacker circles for years. A hacker from [[Berlin]] told the newspaper that "I can feel a huge sense of relief that the silence has at last been broke."<ref name=":3" /><ref>{{Cite web |date=June 6, 2016 |title=Famed Berlin hacker linked to Wikileaks fends off rape claim |url=https://www.thelocal.de/20160606/berlin-hacker-linked-to-wikileaks-fends-off-rape-allegations |website=The Local}}</ref> On 11 August 2016, the German weekly ''[[Die Zeit]]'' published a lengthy investigation into the rape charges, including interviews with three people present at the scene of the alleged rape. None of these witnesses corroborated the claims made by the anonymous victim. The article also reports that a second falsely identified victim had demanded that her story be removed from the anonymous website.<ref name="Die Zeit Contradictions-English" /> A change in attitude in the information security community towards calling out known abusers and believing reports of sexual misconduct was partially credited to Appelbaum's precedent.<ref name="Bernstein" />
==Personal life==
Appelbaum is an [[Atheism|atheist]] of [[Jews|Jewish]] background and identifies himself as [[queer]].<ref name="roll2010"/> Politically, he is an [[Anarchism|anarchist]].<ref name="roll2010"/><ref>{{cite web|title=Jacob Appelbaum (Part 1/2) Digital Anti-Repression Workshop - April 26, 2012|website=[[YouTube]]|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=HHoJ9pQ0cn8#at=3323|access-date=28 June 2013|quote=Like, for me, as an atheist, bisexual, Jew, I'm gonna go on, uh - oh and Emma Goldman is one of my great heroes and I really think that anarchism is a fantastic principle by which to fashion a utopian society even if we can't get there.|archive-date=17 October 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131017175258/https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=HHoJ9pQ0cn8#at=3323|url-status=live}}</ref>
In 2012, he moved to [[Berlin]],<ref name="exberliner.com"/> he has stated that he doesn't want to go back to the [[United States|U.S.]] because he doesn't feel safe there<ref>{{cite web |url=https://gnunet.org/tor2013tum-video |title=Video: Roger Dingledine and Jacob Appelbaum: Q&A |website=GNU |access-date=June 1, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150814044053/https://gnunet.org/tor2013tum-video |archive-date=August 14, 2015}}</ref> and in interviews he has provided specific examples of experiences that left him feeling unsafe.<ref name="exberliner.com"/>
==See also==
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