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Missing Security Boffin Arjen Kamphuis

posted by Fnord666 on Thursday September 20 2018, @02:48AM   
from the dropped-off-the-grid dept.

black6host writes:

From the Guardian we have this story: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/sep/14/speculation-over-fate-of-missing-dutchman-linked-to-wikileaks

On 20 August, Arjen Kamphuis, a leading Dutch cybersecurity expert, checked out of his hotel in Bodø, northern Norway. He had told friends that he planned to take the train to Trondheim, 10 hours away.

He never boarded the train. Nor, two days later at the supposed end of his holiday, did he catch his return flight to Amsterdam. An intensive search by Norwegian police, and two Dutch investigators dispatched to help them has failed to locate him.

A kayak believed to belong to Kamphuis, who advised governments, corporations, journalists and activists on information security, was pulled from the sea about 50km from Bodø on Thursday, police said, the day after an amateur fisherman found some of his belongings – reportedly including an ID card – floating in the water. ...

I suppose if someone wanted to go off the grid for a while a good security expert could do it.

Previously: Privacy Expert and WikiLeaks Consultant, Arjen Kamphuis, Still Missing

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• Re:Not drowning, just (not) waving Re:Not drowning, just (not) waving (Score: 3, Interesting) by Phoenix666 on Thursday September 20 2018, @11:02AM (1 child)

  by Phoenix666 (552) on Thursday September 20 2018, @11:02AM (#737441) Journal

  By that token, being who he was, having the knowledge and skills he has, he might have figured staging his own death was the best way to avoid Snowden's and Assange's fates. I know that if I was in the same situation, that's what I'd do--drop off the grid. The world is a very big place, with most of it being nowhere near a cell tower or internet connection or even other humans. People who have lived their whole lives in the bosom of man's creations fear real wilderness as tantamount to death, but for those who know how to live off the land, as Kamphuis apparently does, it's freedom.

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• Re:Not drowning, just (not) waving (Score: 3, Insightful) by takyon on Thursday September 20 2018, @02:50PM

  by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Thursday September 20 2018, @02:50PM (#737517) Journal

  Article says:

  Carlo said Kamphuis had “gone off grid before. It can be good for the soul. I was worried before, and it is worrying now. But I have strong faith he will come back into the welcoming arms of his friends when he is ready, in his own time”.

  If he voluntarily disappeared, he could have gotten injured or drowned with little chance of rescue.

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