Rop Gonggrijp
{{Short description|Dutch hacker (born 1968)}}
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|name = Rop Gonggrijp
|image = Rop_Gonggrijp_March_2011.jpg
|caption =Gonggrijp at the Big Brother awards
|birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=y|1968|02|14}}
|birth_place = Amsterdam
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|known_for = XS4ALL, Hack-Tic, [http://www.wijvertrouwenstemcomputersniet.nl/English "We Don't Trust Voting Computers"]
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|nationality = Dutch
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Robbert (Rop) Valentijn Gonggrijp (born 14 February 1968) is a Dutch hacker and one of the founders of XS4ALL.
Biography
Gonggrijp was born in Amsterdam. While growing up in Wormer in the Dutch Zaanstreek area, he became known as a teenage hacker and appeared as one of the main characters in Jan Jacobs's book Kraken en Computers (Hacking and computers, Veen uitgevers 1985, {{ISBN|90-204-2651-6}}) which describes the early hacker scene in the Netherlands. Moved to Amsterdam in 1988. Founded the hacker magazine Hack-Tic in 1989. He was believed to be a major security threat by authorities in the Netherlands and the United States.{{Cite web |title=Francisco van Jole |url=https://fvjole.home.xs4all.nl/archief/artikelen/Volkskrant/1993/heu.html |access-date=2022-11-14 |website=fvjole.home.xs4all.nl}} In the masthead of Hack-Tic, Gonggrijp described his role as hoofdverdachte ('prime suspect'). He was convinced that the Internet would radically alter society.{{Cite web |title=Hack-Tic |url=https://www.hacktic.nl/magazine/0103.htm |access-date=2022-11-14 |website=www.hacktic.nl}}
In 1993, a number of people surrounding Hack-Tic including Gonggrijp founded XS4ALL, the first ISP that offered access to the Internet for private individuals in the Netherlands.{{Citation needed|date=June 2023}} Gonggrijp sold the company to Dutch-Telecom KPN in 1997.{{Citation needed|date=June 2023}} After he left XS4ALL, Gonggrijp founded ITSX, a computer security evaluation company, which was bought by Madison Gurkha in 2006.{{Citation needed|date=June 2023}} In 2001, Gonggrijp started work on the Cryptophone, a mobile telephone that can encrypt conversations.{{Cite web |title=Encrypted Cell Phone Hits the Market - Slashdot |url=https://it.slashdot.org/story/03/11/19/1854226/encrypted-cell-phone-hits-the-market |access-date=2022-11-14 |website=it.slashdot.org |date=19 November 2003 |language=en}}
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|date=June 2023}} Rop held a talk titled "We lost the war"{{Cite web |title=Transcribe/We Lost The War - 22C3 |url=https://events.ccc.de/congress/2005/static/t/r/a/Transcribe_We_Lost_The_War_1de1.html |access-date=2022-11-14 |website=events.ccc.de}} at the Chaos Communication Congress 2005 in Berlin together with Frank Rieger.[http://rop.gonggri.jp/?cat=3 Archive for the 'lost the war' Category]
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 Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail and which showed in October 2006 on Dutch television how an electronic voting machine from manufacturer Nedap could easily be hacked.{{Cite web |last=Wilkens |first=Andreas |title=Dutch citizens group cracks Nedap's voting computer |url=http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/79106 |access-date=2022-11-14 |website=heise online |language=en |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070218063148/http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/79106 |archive-date=2007-02-18}} These findings were taken seriously both by the Dutch government and by international election observers.{{Cite web |title=Netherlands, Parliamentary Elections, 22 November 2006: Final Report |url=https://www.osce.org/odihr/elections/netherlands/24322 |access-date=2022-11-14 |website=osce.org |language=en}}
Gonggrijp has worked for WikiLeaks, helping prepare the Collateral Murder April 2010 release of video footage from a Baghdad airstrikeRop Gonggrijp: [http://rop.gonggri.jp/?p=149 Collateral Murder], blog post, 5 April 2010{{Cite web |date=2010-04-06 |title=Nederlander werkte mee aan WikiLeaks-video |url=https://nos.nl/artikel/148768-nederlander-werkte-mee-aan-wikileaksvideo.html |access-date=2022-11-14 |website=nos.nl |language=nl}}{{Cite magazine |date=2010-05-31 |title=What Does Julian Assange Want? |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/06/07/no-secrets |access-date=2022-07-26 |magazine=The New Yorker |language=en-US}} that killed civilians, including two Reuters journalists.{{cite news |title=Nederlander werkte mee aan WikiLeaks-video |url=https://nos.nl/artikel/148768-nederlander-werkte-mee-aan-wikileaks-video |work=nos.nl |publisher= Nederlandse Omroep Stichting |date=6 April 2010 |language=nl}}
On 14 December 2010, in relation to ongoing investigations of WikiLeaks, the US Department of Justice issued a subpoena ordering Twitter to release information regarding Gonggrijp's account as well as those of Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning, Birgitta Jónsdóttir, Jacob Appelbaum and all 637,000 users following @wikileaks.{{cite news |title=Antwoorden Kamervragen Amerikaanse vervolging Rop Gonggrijp {{!}} Kamerstuk {{!}} Rijksoverheid.nl |url=http://www.rijksoverheid.nl/documenten-en-publicaties/kamerstukken/2011/04/04/antwoorden-kamervragen-amerikaanse-vervolging-rop-gonggrijp.html |work=www.rijksoverheid.nl |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140908094900/http://www.rijksoverheid.nl/documenten-en-publicaties/kamerstukken/2011/04/04/antwoorden-kamervragen-amerikaanse-vervolging-rop-gonggrijp.html |archive-date=8 September 2014}}
According to Gonggrijp, the reason is his assistance in enabling WikiLeaks to release the "Collateral Murder" video in April 2010, a WikiLeaks action.Rop Gonggrijp: [http://rop.gonggri.jp/?p=448 On the Twitter court order], blog post, 10 January 2011{{Self-published inline|date=June 2023|certain=yes}}
References
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External links
- [http://rop.gonggri.jp] Personal blog
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20210620192324/http://wijvertrouwenstemcomputersniet.nl/English] (Dutch and English)
- [http://www.hacktic.nl/] (Hack-Tic archive)
- [https://www.xs4all.nl/klant/wie-wij-zijn/] History of XS4ALL (in Dutch)
- [http://www.nrc.nl/W2/Lab/Netkunst/Gonggrijp/] interview with Gonggrijp (in Dutch)
- [http://www.volkskrant.nl/wetenschap/article358958.ece/Creatief_met_stemcomputers] Interview on Voting machines (in Dutch)
- [http://chaosradio.ccc.de/cre172.html] Extensive Talk with Rop Gonggrijp about his life and the hacker communities in the Netherlands and Germany (in German)
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