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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://aoir.social/users/rwg/statuses/111586089786709207">Robert W. Gehl (rwg@aoir.social)'s status on Sunday, 17-Dec-2023 03:20:33 JST</a><a href="https://aoir.social/@rwg" title="rwg@aoir.social"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/107315-48-20230316162149.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Robert W. Gehl" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Robert W. Gehl</a><div><a href="https://gnusocial.jp/notice/4871343" rel="in-reply-to">in reply to</a></div></section><article><p>Facebook was looking into setting up their own Tor hidden service, what would eventually become facebookcorewwwi.onion (the fact that I can recall that URL is a BIG DEAL, ask me why later).</p><p>So they partnered with Tor, specifically the now infamous Jacob Appelbaum (a serial sexual abuser -- <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Appelbaum#Allegations_of_sexual_misconduct" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Appelbaum#Allegations_of_sexual_misconduct</a>)</p><p>Facebook's goal was to get IETF standardization so they could get a domain certificate for their .onion service. (Ask me why later, more nerdery).</p><p>🧵 /4</p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/2462184#notice-4871344">In conversation</a><time datetime="2023-12-17T03:20:33+09:00" title="Sunday, 17-Dec-2023 03:20:33 JST">Sunday, 17-Dec-2023 03:20:33 JST</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://aoir.social/@rwg/111586089786709207" rel="external" title="Sent from aoir.social via ActivityPub">aoir.social</a></span></span><a href="https://aoir.social/@rwg/111586089786709207">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/1975446">Untitled attachment</a></label><br></li><li><article><header><div>Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: upload.wikimedia.org</div><h5><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Appelbaum#Allegations_of_sexual_misconduct)Facebook">Jacob Appelbaum</a></h5><div></div></header><div>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 several people to work with NSA contractor Edward Snowden's top secret documents released in 2013. His journalistic work has been published in Der Spiegel and elsewhere. Appelbaum is also known for representing WikiLeaks. He has displayed his art in a number of institutions across the world and has collaborated with artists such as Laura Poitras, Trevor Paglen, and Ai Weiwei.Under the pseudonym "ioerror," Appelbaum was an active member of the Cult of the Dead Cow hacker collective from 2008 to 2016, when sexual abuse allegations led to him being the only person to ever be ejected from the group. He was the co-founder of the San Francisco hackerspace Noisebridge with Mitch Altman. He worked for Kink.com and Greenpeace and volunteered for the Ruckus Society and the...</div><footer></footer></article></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Robert W. Gehl (rwg@aoir.social)'s status on Sunday, 17-Dec-2023 03:20:33 JST Robert W. Gehl
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Facebook was looking into setting up their own Tor hidden service, what would eventually become facebookcorewwwi.onion (the fact that I can recall that URL is a BIG DEAL, ask me why later).
So they partnered with Tor, specifically the now infamous Jacob Appelbaum (a serial sexual abuser -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Appelbaum#Allegations_of_sexual_misconduct)
Facebook's goal was to get IETF standardization so they could get a domain certificate for their .onion service. (Ask me why later, more nerdery).
🧵 /4
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  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 several people to work with NSA contractor Edward Snowden's top secret documents released in 2013. His journalistic work has been published in Der Spiegel and elsewhere. Appelbaum is also known for representing WikiLeaks. He has displayed his art in a number of institutions across the world and has collaborated with artists such as Laura Poitras, Trevor Paglen, and Ai Weiwei.Under the pseudonym "ioerror," Appelbaum was an active member of the Cult of the Dead Cow hacker collective from 2008 to 2016, when sexual abuse allegations led to him being the only person to ever be ejected from the group. He was the co-founder of the San Francisco hackerspace Noisebridge with Mitch Altman. He worked for Kink.com and Greenpeace and volunteered for the Ruckus Society and the...

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