Power, secrecy and cypherpunks: how Jacob Appelbaum ripped Tor apart

Once part of Julian Assange's inner circle, the prominent tech activist is facing a slew of troubling allegations that has left the Tor community divided

Edward Snowden's face seems ever present in Berlin, where stickers on doors and lamp-posts promise there's always "A bed for Snowden" and posters plug Oliver Stone's eponymous film.

The whistleblower's explosive 2013 revelations about international government surveillance generated some good advertising for Berlin, cementing its reputation as hipster technology activist capital of the world. The city's cheap lifestyle and post-second world war aversion to surveillance, as well as sympathetic Germany residency rules, have created a powerful network of support and infrastructure for its dedicated cyberactivism community. We are "poor, but sexy", its residents like to say.