Andrea Shepard mentions that the Tor fork stinks of Russia psyops (
   [1]https://twitter.com/puellavulnerata/status/769311082318036992 ). It
   obviously failed.
   How would the next time succeed? This Tor fork operation likely failed
   because it did not take into account obvious measures of status, if
   Joshua Yabut had joined Tor and made contributions and gained social
   capital before the crisis, he would be more likely to succeed and draw
   a following by splitting off at the moment of crisis. He did things in
   the wrong order. Interestingly, he was NASA Red Team, or cyber counter
   intelligence, much like the creator of Encyclopedia Dramatica, but I
   digress.
   But Joshua Yabut has an obvious connection to the US Army, former
   infantry. There have been many suspicious events involving the US
   Army's history. McCarthy's investigation of Communist subversion failed
   when he went after the army (more obscure voices will point to another
   investigation into another agency). Lee Harvey Oswald was in the navy
   before defecting to Russia, there were allegations that he provided
   information that allowed the U-2 to be shot down. More recently, CIA
   militias in Syria are fighting Pentagon militias in Syria (
   [2]http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-cia-pentagon-isis-2016
   0327-story.html ). There are also allegations that the Pentagon
   sabotaged the State Department's peace deal with Russia. This has been
   characterized many ways, Cowboy vs Yankee War, Moldbug's Red Empire vs
   Blue Empire. There is certainly some sort of internal antagonism being
   played out in the world.
   Regardless, nothing is quite what it seems, and searching for the truth
   is unrewarding. Better to find it at the bottom of a bottle.
   P.S. I wonder how many times Zerodium pays for the same exploit from
   different researchers. Afterall, if they stiff a researcher, they can
   always alert the maintainers of the code, if they aren't one
   themselves.
   P.P.S. How much does it cost to have a botnet untraceably DDOS Tor?

References

   1. https://twitter.com/puellavulnerata/status/769311082318036992
   2. http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-cia-pentagon-isis-20160327-story.html