At Santa Rosa Junior College he gained recognition for publicly hacking a number of his professors, something he claimed “ earned him a few A grades”. Programming and hacking, he later told Rolling Stone, began to make him feel “ like the world was not a lost place”. As a teenager he began to find salvation, as he described it, in sex, and discovered computers at around the same time. He became obsessive compulsive for a time, showering up to eight times a day and unable to eat in his own kitchen. In an interview in 2005, he described a childhood spent dealing with his father’s heroin addiction and suicide attempts, and periods in homeless shelters. He was born near San Francisco, California, in April 1983 to troubled parents. His ascent to tech stardom was far from smooth. He has spoken to the European parliament civil liberties committee about government spying, used classified documents leaked by Edward Snowden to report on Nato’s Taliban “kill lists” and collaborated with the dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei. J acob Appelbaum is one of the world’s most prominent advocates of freedom of speech, and an outspoken opponent of government surveillance. That community recently met in Seattle to tackle a new challenge: a long-running saga of allegations of sexual assault, bullying and harassment that has ripped Tor’s community apart. And some are employed by Tor, a long running web anonymity project with something of a cult following. Many of Berlin’s technologists work freelance, employed by anti-surveillance projects or secure messaging tools.
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