Rop Gonggrijp

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Rop Gonggrijp receives the Winston Award at the Big Brother Awards 2010

Robbert (Rop) Valentijn Gonggrijp (born February 14, 1968 in Amsterdam ) is a Dutch hacker , entrepreneur and temporary employee of WikiLeaks .

Hacker culture

Gonggrijp was one of the founders of the hacker magazine Hack-Tic , which was published in Amsterdam from 1989 to 1994 , based on the model of the German data thrower . In 2005 he was the organizer of the hacker conference What The Hack in Liempde, Netherlands at Boxtel . In 1988 he was represented at the fifth Chaos Communication Congress of the Chaos Computer Club . After giving a lecture there in 2005, he gave the opening speech in 2010. Rop Gonggrijp was also known for his work for the group "Wij vertrouwen stemcomputers niet", which campaigned against the use of voting computers . For example, this group demonstrated security problems in Dutch voting computers with the Nedap hack . With another group, Gonggrijp succeeded in doing the same for Indian voting computers.

Entrepreneurial activity

In 1993 Hack-Tic founded XS4ALL , one of the first internet service providers in Holland. The company was sold to the KPN concern in 1998 . Gonggrijp founded ITSX , a company for security in information technology, in 1997 , sold it again in 2006 and began working on the encryption of mobile telephony in 2001, which two years later led to the establishment of the Berlin-based GSMK CryptoPhone , which sells tap- proof communication media.

WikiLeaks

Rop Gonggrijp was part of the WikiLeaks team that spent several weeks editing the video Collateral Murder and preparing for its publication in Iceland in 2010 . He had already met Julian Assange in 2009, noticed similarities and had traveled with him through Asia for several weeks. The journalistic preparation of the raw material showing the American air strikes in Baghdad in 2007, and the preoccupation with the survivors and the families of the victims, he experienced, as he wrote shortly afterwards on his homepage, as “highly emotional and very intense”.

Presumably because of this work, Rop Gonggrijp was one of the victims at the beginning of 2011 in an attempt by the US government , which was ultimately successful in November of that year , to obtain personal data about him from Twitter using a subpoena .

Awards

At the Dutch Big Brother Awards for 2010 in Amsterdam , Gonggrijp received the positive Winston Award in March 2011 for his commitment to the protection of privacy and freedom in the digital age .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Spiegel Online on July 29, 2005: Dozens of news sites take over Hacker-Duck. Retrieved February 5, 2011 .
  2. ↑ Heise.de on December 27, 2010: 27C3: Hacker between Wikileaks, censorship efforts and chaos. Retrieved January 23, 2011 .
  3. ↑ Stefan Krempl: 22C3: "We lost the war". heise online, December 28, 2005, accessed on February 26, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Homepage of the group with press review. Retrieved January 23, 2011 .
  5. ↑ c't, edition 23/2006: "The non-solution of a non-existent problem" Rop Gonggrijp on the consequences of the voting machine hack. Retrieved January 23, 2011 .
  6. ↑ Richard Sietmann: India's e-voting devices are vulnerable. heise online, April 30, 2010, accessed on February 26, 2015 .
  7. ↑ Homepage of the company. Archived from the original on January 13, 2008 ; Retrieved January 23, 2011 .
  8. ↑ Joel Bisang: Internet Pioneer - To the End of the System. WOZ Die Wochenzeitung, June 8, 2010, accessed on February 26, 2015 .
  9. ^ Portrait for the 22nd Chaos Communication Congress 2005. Accessed on January 23, 2011 .
  10. ↑ Stefan Krempl: Cryptophone should make mobile telephony tap-proof. heise online, November 19, 2003, accessed on February 26, 2015 .
  11. ↑ Marcel Rosenbach , Holger Stark : Public enemy WikiLeaks. How a group of net activists challenge the most powerful nations in the world. Pp. 117-124 . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt , Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-421-04518-8 .
  12. ^ Rop Gonggrijp: Collateral Murder. April 5, 2010, accessed February 26, 2015 .
  13. ↑ Detlef Borchers: Chaos Computer Club: Peace be with you, say the hackers. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, December 28, 2010, accessed on February 26, 2015 .
  14. ↑ Rop Gonggrijp: US DOJ wants my twitter account info. January 8, 2011, accessed February 26, 2015 .
  15. ↑ sac: Four Big Brother Awards for gross violations of Dutch data protection. March 13, 2011, accessed February 26, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Gonggrijp, Rop
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gonggrijp, Robbert Valentijn (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch hacker
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam