<story><title>Our statement on the results of the Jacob Appelbaum investigation</title><url>https://blog.torproject.org/blog/statement-0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ddevault</author><text>This sort of thing really merits a judicial investigation. It&amp;#x27;s not appropriate to place these issues in the eyes of the public until then, and I&amp;#x27;ve never appreciated these sorts of articles in my feed.&lt;p&gt;Some will be swayed by the fact that the internal investigation turned up some legitimate claims, but if the judicial system disagrees then this guy&amp;#x27;s life is already ruined, and I don&amp;#x27;t think that&amp;#x27;s appropriate. The whole situation reflects poorly on everyone involved.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>avs733</author><text>That seems to assume that&lt;p&gt;* The judicial system is the only system capable of determining facts.&lt;p&gt;* Our adversarial-driven judicial system is an effective way of determining facts.&lt;p&gt;Neither of those are true. The ability of any group of independent experts to collect information&amp;#x2F;evidence, analyze it, and come to a conclusion about a reasoned set of facts and inferences is something I am comfortable assuming. This happens all the time, and I can&amp;#x27;t help but think that the context here (i.e., a man harassing a women) has some influence on this point of view.&lt;p&gt;What TOR produced and published is in my eyes perfectly appropriate and reasonable. Bad conduct not always does, nor should it, necessitate a judicial investigation. Especially when that investigation is carried out by the &lt;i&gt;state&lt;/i&gt; who have a significant tension with the TOR project. Not to mention that the victims have asked for that not to happen.</text></comment>
<story><title>Our statement on the results of the Jacob Appelbaum investigation</title><url>https://blog.torproject.org/blog/statement-0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ddevault</author><text>This sort of thing really merits a judicial investigation. It&amp;#x27;s not appropriate to place these issues in the eyes of the public until then, and I&amp;#x27;ve never appreciated these sorts of articles in my feed.&lt;p&gt;Some will be swayed by the fact that the internal investigation turned up some legitimate claims, but if the judicial system disagrees then this guy&amp;#x27;s life is already ruined, and I don&amp;#x27;t think that&amp;#x27;s appropriate. The whole situation reflects poorly on everyone involved.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dublinben</author><text>&amp;gt;This sort of thing really merits a judicial investigation&lt;p&gt;The victims involved in this have specifically asked this to not happen.  I&amp;#x27;m sure you can understand why the members of a community like this would have personal or political reasons to avoid a judicial investigation.</text></comment>