Virgil, are you really so dishonest that you can’t even get through your first paragraph without at the very least misleading, if not outright lying to, your readers?

There’s never been a better time to leave Tor. After a few weeks of unsuccessfully waiting for my views to mellow, I add my voice to the exodus.

“You can’t fire me, I quit!” is high-handed-sounding nonsense coming from someone who Tor already ejected for harvesting data on users and trying to sell it to INTERPOL and the Singaporean government. You can’t quit. They already fired you. I know you have your excuses, but as Tom Leckrone said in regard to this matter, “A community member may not make compromises such as this on behalf of the community. When community work is involved, each contributor is expected to disclose plans such as this to peers within the community.”

This is not a new ethical standard for the privacy community. I don’t remember if you were at PETS 2008, but “faithless endpoint” activities such as yours were the cause of considerable outcry and an hour-long debate after it came out that one of the papers had done irresponsible logging experiments without prior disclosure to the community. Practices that are unethical in research are also unethical in commerce. Tor’s policies now codify this. They should have back in 2008. You are not being picked on here. You done fucked up.

I’d engage with the arguments you make, but your self-serving bad faith with respect to the users of the Tor network and misleading opening gambit leave me no choice but to point out the likelihood that there is some seriously motivated reasoning going on here.

Grow some integrity, Virgil. You’re despicable.