Arjen Kamphuis, privacy expert from The Netherlands and consultant for Wikileaks, has disappeared and was last seen in Bodø, Norway back in August after checking out of his hotel. He has not been seen since and no details are available yet. Heavy summarizes what little is known at this date and Norwegian police have started looking for him.
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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
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 10 2018, @07:55AM (5 children)
Have the checked the Ecuadorian embassy in Norway?
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 10 2018, @08:39AM
If the Swedes don't know about any sexual relationship to mask an extraordinary rendition request from the Americans, there's no reason to look in the Ecuadorian embassy.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 10 2018, @08:40AM (1 child)
Have they checked whether any swedish women had consensual sex with him?
(Score: 3, Funny) by takyon on Monday September 10 2018, @11:41AM
Not thoroughly. :^)
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by Thexalon on Monday September 10 2018, @12:34PM
The other obvious place to look is Gitmo.
"Think of how stupid the average person is. Then realize half of 'em are stupider than that." - George Carlin
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 10 2018, @02:47PM
I'd check the morgue. Depending on what he knows about the Wikileaks/Russia relationship, Putin and his thugs may have more than a passing interest in "silencing" this consultant.
Of course, he could be in gitmo. Now that the US government has become completely lawless as well, it's a crap shoot which government poses the bigger risk to these people. One thing is clear, whichever side wins in this cyberwar, the transparency and openness that wikileaks pretended to represent will certainly lose.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by ledow on Monday September 10 2018, @11:34AM (1 child)
Ironically, maybe he just wants people to respect his privacy?
(Score: 2) by driverless on Monday September 10 2018, @08:32PM
My feelings as well, he's a "privacy expert", so one would hope he's pretty good at maintaining his privacy.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 10 2018, @07:55PM (1 child)
maybe the waves of "migrants" and "refugees" got him?
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 11 2018, @01:35AM
Norway is already 3% moslem [cia.gov] but it is not evenly spread out. He is toast if he wandered into an occupied valley. There are even very bad colonies inside the major cities [city-journal.org] but those are safer than the valleys.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 10 2018, @08:44PM (1 child)
That will tell you where he went.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 10 2018, @09:46PM
No, some nationalities believe revenge is a dish best served cold. Check if he pissed off any Hungarians four or five years ago.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 11 2018, @01:27AM
On August 30th, he's phone was turned on in the vicinity of Vikeså, around 50 kilometers south of Stavanger. The phone was turned on for 20 minutes. After that, the SIM card was removed and a German SIM card was put into the phone. The Norwegian police is currently trying to track the history of that SIM card. [nltimes.nl]