Andy Müller-Maguhn (born 3 October 1971) is a member of the German

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association Chaos Computer Club (CCC). Having been a member since 1986, 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. 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. In 1995, Müller-Maguhn founded the "Datenreisebüro" ('Data Travel Agency'), based in a

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office since 2002. In 2005 and 2006, Müller-Maguhn was involved on the side of the parents of the deceased hacker Boris Floricic, better known as

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, 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.

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

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, which was often attributed to Müller-Maguhn's close relation to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and an ongoing conflict between Assange and Domscheit-Berg. At a general meeting in February 2012, this decision was reverted, while Müller-Maguhn was not reelected to the board. In 2011, Müller-Maguhn's company Bugged Planet worked with

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on the Spy Files release. The Mueller Report inferred that Müller-Maguhn may have assisted with transferring the DNC emails or the

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to WikiLeaks. In 2016, he delivered a USB to Assange in the Embassy. 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

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met with Assange for at least four hours. 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. Müller-Maguhn was an alleged target of UC Global's surveillance of Julian Assange in the Embassy. Müller-Maguhn is Vice President for the Wau Holland Foundation and a member of the Advisory Board for the Courage Foundation. He appeared with Julian Assange on Episode 8 and 9 of '' The World Tomorrow'', "Cypherpunks: 1/2". He is a contributor to Julian Assange's 2012 book '' Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet'' along with

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and Jérémie Zimmermann.

References

External links

Müller-Maguhn's homepage
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