Rop Gonggrijp
Rop Gonggrijp | |
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Nationality | Dutch |
Known for | XS4ALL, Hack-Tic, "We Don't Trust Voting Computers" |
Robbert (Rop) Valentijn Gonggrijp (born 14 February 1968) is a Dutch
Biography
Gonggrijp was born in
In 1993, a number of people surrounding
Since 1989, Gonggrijp has been the main organizer of hacker events held every four years.
Throughout the years, he has repeatedly shown his concerns about the increasing amount of information on individuals that government agencies and companies have access to.[citation needed] Rop held a talk titled "We lost the war"[4] at the Chaos Communication Congress 2005 in Berlin together with Frank Rieger.[5]
In 2006 he founded the organisation "Wij vertrouwen stemcomputers niet" ("We do not trust voting computers") which campaigns against the use of electronic voting systems without a
Gonggrijp has worked for
On 14 December 2010, in relation to ongoing investigations of WikiLeaks, the
According to Gonggrijp, the reason is his assistance in enabling WikiLeaks to release the "Collateral Murder" video in April 2010, a WikiLeaks action.[13][self-published source]
References
- ^ "Francisco van Jole". fvjole.home.xs4all.nl. Retrieved 2022-11-14.
- ^ "Hack-Tic". www.hacktic.nl. Retrieved 2022-11-14.
- ^ "Encrypted Cell Phone Hits the Market - Slashdot". it.slashdot.org. 19 November 2003. Retrieved 2022-11-14.
- ^ "Transcribe/We Lost The War - 22C3". events.ccc.de. Retrieved 2022-11-14.
- ^ Archive for the 'lost the war' Category
- ^ online, heise. "heise online". heise online (in German). Retrieved 2022-11-14.
- osce.org. Retrieved 2022-11-14.
- ^ Rop Gonggrijp: Collateral Murder, blog post, 5 April 2010
- ^ "Nederlander werkte mee aan WikiLeaks-video". nos.nl (in Dutch). 2010-04-06. Retrieved 2022-11-14.
- ^ "What Does Julian Assange Want?". The New Yorker. 2010-05-31. Retrieved 2022-07-26.
- ^ "Nederlander werkte mee aan WikiLeaks-video". nos.nl (in Dutch). Nederlandse Omroep Stichting. 6 April 2010.
- ^ "Antwoorden Kamervragen Amerikaanse vervolging Rop Gonggrijp | Kamerstuk | Rijksoverheid.nl". www.rijksoverheid.nl. Archived from the original on 8 September 2014.
- ^ Rop Gonggrijp: On the Twitter court order, blog post, 10 January 2011
External links
- [1] Personal blog
- [2] (Dutch and English)
- [3] (Hack-Tic archive)
- [4] History of XS4ALL (in Dutch)
- [5] interview with Gonggrijp (in Dutch)
- [6] Interview on Voting machines (in Dutch)
- [7] Extensive Talk with Rop Gonggrijp about his life and the hacker communities in the Netherlands and Germany (in German)