Re: [tor-bugs] #19513 [User Experience]: Ex-CIA inside Tor. You need to write a blog about this.

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#19513: Ex-CIA inside Tor. You need to write a blog about this.
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 Reporter:  ikurua22         |          Owner:
     Type:  task             |         Status:  reopened
 Priority:  High             |      Milestone:
Component:  User Experience  |        Version:
 Severity:  Major            |     Resolution:
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Changes (by cypherpunks):

 * status:  closed => reopened
 * resolution:  not a bug =>


Comment:

 This timeline may be a good starting point for a blog post. Hope it helps.

 January 15th, 2011: David Chasteen attended a Tor hackday at MIT, while
 claiming to work for the State Department. There, he met Tor people
 including Jacob Appelbaum. Around this time, David Chasteen indicated he
 was interested in a job at Tor, but he was not hired.

 October 5th, 2014: Roger Dingledine suggested adding David Chasteen to the
 tor-internal private mailing list and possibly hiring him as a project
 manager.

 October 8th, 2014: Based on her previous experiences working with him,
 Karen Reilly sent an email to tor-internal advocating for David Chasteen
 to be hired as a project manager.

 October 14th, 2014: David Chasteen was added to tor-internal.

 November 5th and 6th, 2014: Operation Onymous

 November 6th, 2014: David Chasteen's last day at the CIA after working
 there for 8 years.

 November 7th, 2014: David Chasteen's first day working for Tor as a
 project manager. Along with Karen
 Reilly, he attended Freedom of the Press Foundation's Digital Security
 Conference in Washington DC. At the conference, he met with Xeni Jardin
 about writing a guest post on Boingboing about Tor hiring him. On this
 same day, David Chasteen disclosed to Roge r Dingledine that he worked for
 the CIA.

 November 9th, 2014: In the wake of media concerns stemming from Operation
 Onymous, Jacob Appelbaum sent an email to tor-internal calling for a more
 coordinated media strategy. In this, he asked if anyone paid by Tor has a
 clearance.

 November 10th, 2014 13:30 EST: David Chasteen responded saying that he had
 a clearance, but it is no longer active. He further stated that, because
 all Foreign Service Officers and military officers have clearance, having
 a policy against hiring anyone with a clearance would be discrimination
 against
 veterans.

 November 10th, 2014 15:21 EST: David Chasteen sent an email to tor-
 internal disclosing that he worked for the CIA for 8 years, explaining why
 he wanted to work for Tor, and discussing is plans going forward
 (including the Boingboing guest post).

 November 10th, 2014: tor-internal IRC and mailing list discussion about
 how to handle the hiring of David Chasteen.

 November 10th, 2014 18:21 EST: David Chasteen sent an email saying he was
 going to "bow out" because it did not seem like anyone was comfortable
 with the situation.

 November 11th, 2014 18:51 EST: Jacob Appelbaum sent the #tor-internal IRC
 log to the tor-internal email list.

 November 10th, 2014 22:44 EST: David Chasteen said he was going to
 unsubscribe himself from tor-internal. At 23:10 EST, Damian Johnson
 confired that David Chasteen was no longer on tor-internal.

 November 16th: Andrew Lewman sent an email to tor-internal saying that
 David Chasteen hired a law firm and that members of the list should have
 no contact with David Chasteen or discussions about him.

 December 2nd: Andrew Lewman told tor-internal that negotiations with David
 Chasteen were ongoing, reiterated his request that tor-internal members
 have no contact with or discussions about David Chasteen, and said he
 would report back with updates.

 At some later date, David Chasteen settled out of court with the Tor
 Project.

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