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Leigh Honeywell
Personal blog · hypatia.casecuritycareerculture
Leigh Honeywell writes hypatia dot ca, a personal blog at hypatia.ca about security, career and culture. Since 2013, 18 different Hacker News readers have linked it 21 times, most often “He Said, They Said – First-Person Account of Jacob Appelbaum's Sexual Misconduct”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Leigh Honeywell's Blog
Most-linked posts?
- He Said, They Said – First-Person Account of Jacob Appelbaum's Sexual Misconduct6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2016-06-08
- The Al Capone theory of sexual harassment3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-07-18
- My first year-ish with ADHD2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-09-23
What Hacker News says?
similar stories are emerging: - https://killnicole.github.io/statement/ (edit i see she has added it to the article itself) - https://twitter.com/brianclapper/status/1387115214064193537?... - https://twitter.com/adelbertchang/status/1387090351626723329... there seems to be some coordination here, as this came out pretty much at the same time. https://typelevel.org/blog/2021/04/27/community-safety.html Yifan also lin…
Comment linking /2014/08/05/what-you-can-do/
on “My experience with sexual harassment in the Scala community”Submitted My ADHD founder toolbox as a story · 455 points
HN discussionI think the first-person stories of @hypatiadotca [0] and @violetblue [1] suggest more than that. [0] https://hypatia.ca/2016/06/07/he-said-they-said/ [1] https://twitter.com/violetblue/status/740446500891860992 / https://twitter.com/violetblue/status/740446782505779200 / etc. (argh twitter)
Comment linking /2016/06/07/he-said-they-said/
on “Statement by Jill Bähring Regarding Jacob Appelbaum”Submitted No more rock stars: how to stop abuse in tech communities as a story · 102 points
HN discussionThe author uses first-hand experience as a source: https://hypatia.ca/2016/06/07/he-said-they-said/ And criticising something important as "boring" is very dismissive.
Comment linking /2016/06/07/he-said-they-said/
on “No more rock stars: how to stop abuse in tech communities”Submitted He Said, They Said – First-Person Account of Jacob Appelbaum's Sexual Misconduct as a story · 12 points
HN discussionThis is no longer Anonymous v Appelbaum - there are now, by my last count, at least six people on the record: Tor developer Andrea Shepard to Wired[0]. Shepard again, Emerson Tan and Meridith Patterson to Gizmodo[1]. Daily Dot spoke to four witnesses, adding Tor developer Alison Macrina to the list of those on the record[2]. Nick Farr[3] and Leigh Honeywell[4] That is without counting the numerous people who have co…
Comment linking /2016/06/07/he-said-they-said/
on “Tor/Appelbaum Separation Agreement [pdf]”Submitted The Al Capone theory of sexual harassment as a story · 7 points
HN discussion> anonymous testimony Okay then, how about these: https://hypatia.ca/2016/06/07/he-said-they-said/ https://medium.com/@nickf4rr/hi-im-nick-farr-nickf4rr-35c32f... https://twitter.com/quinnnorton/status/739937558533021697 And just to make sure this tweet isn't missed... https://twitter.com/quinnnorton/status/739939420183400449 Quinn Norton: > I do hope Jake has enough sense that trying to accuse me of being part of a…
Comment linking /2016/06/07/he-said-they-said/
on “Tor/Appelbaum Separation Agreement [pdf]”Submitted But is it systemic? as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI’m a big fan of number 2 - people who think in hierarchies tend to think things are below them - but 7 is extremely underappreciated. If you haven’t seen it, the Al Capone theory of Sexual Harassment (< https://hypatia.ca/2017/07/18/the-al-capone-theory-of-sexual... >) covers this pretty well: Someone who’ll do the wrong thing in one circumstance has already displayed the moral flexibility to convince themselves it…
Comment linking /2017/07/18/the-al-capone-theory-of-sexual-harassment/
on “My 8 Best Techniques for Evaluating Character”Submitted The Al Capone theory of sexual harassment as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted What you can do as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted My first year-ish with ADHD as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Part-time Power as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted He said, they said as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bingo and Beyond as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Changes to Twitter's blocking behavior, and a workaround as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A quick and dirty post about my first year-ish with ADHD as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bounty Launch Lessons as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bounty Launch Lessons as a story · 1 points
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