Biography
Jacob Appelbaum is an American computer-security researcher, hacker, privacy activist and former Tor Project developer who represented WikiLeaks at public events and later worked with journalists reporting on documents supplied by Edward Snowden. Appelbaum was also a member of the hacker collective Cult of the Dead Cow and co-founded the Noisebridge hackerspace in San Francisco. Authorities began detaining and questioning him on multiple occasions beginning in July 2010 and seized his electronic devices. The Justice Department also obtained a court order for information associated with his Twitter account during the WikiLeaks investigation. In 2013 he fled to Germany to escape increasing FBI surveillance and arbitrary harassment and out of fears the Justice Department was preparing to indict him for his activism. He remains in exile in Germany to this day.
