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Andy Müller-Maguhn
Müller-Maguhn at the May 22, 2009 SIGINT conference
Born (1971-10-03) 3 October 1971 (age 52)
NationalityGerman
OccupationHacker
Known forFormer spokesman of the Chaos Computer Club

Andy Müller-Maguhn (born 3 October 1971) is a member of the German hacker association Chaos Computer Club (CCC). Having been a member since 1986,[1] he was appointed as a spokesman for the club in 1990, and later served on its board until 2012. He runs a company that develops cryptophones.[2]

In an election in Autumn 2000, he was voted in as an at-large director of ICANN, which made him jointly responsible with 18 other directors for the worldwide development of guidelines and the decision of structural questions for the Internet structure.[3] His term lasted two years, and from June 2002 to June 2004, he operated as an honorary board member of the European Digital Rights Institution (EDRi), an umbrella organization for European NGOs which campaigns for human rights in the digital age.[citation needed]

In 1995, Müller-Maguhn founded the "Datenreisebüro" ('Data Travel Agency'), since 2002 based in a Berlin office.[4] Besides organising the Chaos Computer Club and hosting an electronic archive, the Datenreisebüro organises workshops which train system administrators in data protection and data security. Workshops are also held in order to create policies and structures which make data protection easier to achieve. Müller-Maguhn has also helped at several of Hackers on Planet Earth conferences.[citation needed]

In 2005 and 2006, Müller-Maguhn was involved on the side of the parents of the deceased hacker Boris Floricic, better known as Tron, in the case where they sought to prevent German Wikipedia from disclosing his true name, although the name had appeared in many press accounts by that point in time.[5]

Relationship with Julian Assange and WikiLeaks

In 2011, Müller-Maguhn was criticized for his role in the CCC board's controversial decision to expel former WikiLeaks spokesman Daniel Domscheit-Berg, which was often attributed to Müller-Maguhn's close relation to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and an ongoing conflict between Assange and Domscheit-Berg.[6] At a general meeting in February 2012, this decision was reverted, while Müller-Maguhn was not reelected to the board.[1]

In 2011, Müller-Maguhn's company Bugged Planet worked with WikiLeaks on the Spy Files release.[7]

The Mueller Report inferred that Müller-Maguhn may have assisted with transferring the DNC emails or the Podesta emails to WikiLeaks.[8] In 2016, he delivered a USB to Assange in the Embassy.[9] In July 2016, on the same day "Guccifer 2.0" sent Assange an encrypted 1 GB file containing stolen DNC emails, German hackers Andrew Müller-Maguhn and Wau Holland board member Bernd Fix met with Assange for at least four hours.[10] According to The Washington Post, a former WikiLeaks associate said that year Müller-Maguhn and a colleague oversaw submissions to WikiLeaks server that year, which Müller-Maguhn denied.[9]

Müller-Maguhn was an alleged target of UC Global's surveillance of Julian Assange in the Embassy.[2][8][11]

Müller-Maguhn is Vice President for the Wau Holland Foundation[2] and a member of the Advisory Board for the Courage Foundation.[12]

He appeared with Julian Assange on Episode 8 and 9 of The World Tomorrow, "Cypherpunks: 1/2".[13]

He is a contributor to Julian Assange's 2012 book Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet along with Jacob Appelbaum and Jérémie Zimmermann.

References

  1. ^ a b "Stühlerücken beim CCC: Müller-Maguhn nicht mehr im Vorstand". Computerwoche (in German). 2012-01-20. Retrieved 2012-11-28.
  2. ^ a b c "Spanish court to question witnesses over 'illegal surveillance' of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange". ComputerWeekly.com. Retrieved 2022-03-21.
  3. ^ "Andy Mueller-Maguhn - ICANN". www.icann.org. Retrieved 2022-03-21.
  4. ^ "Datenreisen - Arbyte". 2010-10-28.
  5. ^ "Suing Wikipedia: How a Dead Hacker Shut Down Wikipedia Germany". Der Spiegel. 2006-01-20. Retrieved 2012-11-28.
  6. ^ Laaf, Meike (2012-02-06). "Domscheit-Berg zurück im Club". die tageszeitung (in German). Retrieved 2012-11-28.
  7. ^ Greenberg, Andy. "WikiLeaks Unveils 160 Firms' Surveillance Gear Sales Docs, Still No Submissions System". Forbes. Retrieved 2022-10-05.
  8. ^ a b Marshall Cohen, Kay Guerrero and Arturo Torres. "Exclusive: Security reports reveal how Assange turned an embassy into a command post for election meddling". CNN. Retrieved 2022-03-21.
  9. ^ a b "A German hacker offers a rare look inside the secretive world of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2022-03-21.
  10. ^ Cohen, Marshall; Guerrero, Kay; Torres, Arturo (July 15, 2019). "Exclusive: Security reports reveal how Assange turned an embassy into a command post for election meddling". CNN. Retrieved July 15, 2019.
  11. ^ "David Morales: "No trabajo para la CIA"". CNN (in Spanish). 2019-12-05. Retrieved 2022-03-21.
  12. ^ "Advisory Board | Courage Foundation". Retrieved 2022-03-21.
  13. ^ Anne Sewell (2012-06-05). "Assange 'The World Tomorrow' — Ep 8: Cypherpunks Part 1". DigitalJournal.com.

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