You may not always know who your partners are. The Washington Post reports:
An innovative company lionized for devising ways to crack passwords to huge cryptocurrency accounts has fallen into disarray since it began emerging that the firm was secretly co-founded by a once-celebrated hacker publicly accused of repeated sexual assaults.
The previously unreported role of Morgan Marquis-Boire in the company, Unciphered, has especially unnerved employees and contractors who held secret clearances during past work with the CIA, NSA and FBI and who had introduced intelligence agencies to the high-profile start-up.
New Zealander Marquis-Boire, Unciphered’s undisclosed co-founder, is anathema to the intelligence establishment for his work at a nonprofit that managed the troves of secret intelligence documents leaked by fugitive federal contractor Edward Snowden, now living in Russia.
Marquis-Boire has also been spurned by antiestablishment hackers who once admired the high-profile former Google engineer for dissecting high-end phone spyware. Following his work on pathbreaking anti-surveillance projects with such prominent nonprofits as Citizen Lab and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, he left social media and dropped out of public sight in 2017 after he was accused in a number of accounts of sexually assaulting women.
Read more at The Washington Post.
