01x03 - Some dude

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Title: Ze Weten Alles Van Je
ep. 03

Based on a true story
about a missing person.

The people who the journalist interviews are real.
Her experiences are dramatized.

In 2010 WikiLeaks publishes a video...

with the name 'Collateral m*rder'

In which can be seen:
American Soldiers in Iraq...

k*lling unarmed civilians.

The video causes an
international riot.

On that moment the two biggest
security services...

the NSA and CIA, have
WikiLeaks in their crosshairs.

Australian Julian Assange
is the face of the organization.

And quickly became
a big public enemy.

In 2013 Edward Snowden
became known...

an employee of the NSA...

discloses how the American
Secret Services...

not only eavesdropping
on suspects...

but more or less everyone.

In 2017 WikiLeaks came
Unexpected with 'Vault 7'.

It's the biggest leak ever
at the CIA.

Whistleblower website WikiLeaks
published documents...

about one of the biggest
secret projects...

of the secret service Vault 7.

We often think our devices
are securely protected.

But today a publication
of WikiLeaks...

shows us the CIA can
hack more than we previously thought.

CEO of CIA Mike Pompeo
is infuriated and seeks revenge.

Everyone who is involved
with WikiLeaks...

was closely monitored.

And so is Arjen Kamphuis

Hacker and cybersecurity-expert
Arjen Kamphuis m*rder*d.

Across Rognan, at the other side
of a fjord, lies Fauske.

This place is an important place
for Norse security services...

from where they
cooperate with the Americans.

Before Arjens phone got a signal
in the south of Norway...

this is the where he
on the day of his disappearance...

makes contact, for the last time.

Around 9 o'clock he would've
gotten in his kayak in Rognan...

and at 10 o'clock his phone send a
signal in Fauske. Can't be.

He would've gotten
on a cargo ship...

and at 10 o'clock his phone send
a signal in Fauske.

But that ship took off 4 days after.
That doesn't make sense.

What happened then?

There is a cybersecurity center 'Faukse 11'.

A base for satellite espionage.

A few buildings
With big radardomes on it.

They track all possible data
through there.

On paper it is all Norse...

but apparently Americans call
the shots there. The NSA.

This afternoon we go further with...
-We?

Yes, we. Derek and I.

Has that Derek told you already
why he lives in Norway?


foreign affairs...

and leaked sensitive information.

Nice friends you make over there.

What our group of friends
didn't know...

if he really was that important...

that intelligence agencies
wanted to track him.

Or he just liked to give us
that impression.

What did he tell about his
meeting with Assange?

Little. I know that it happened,
multiple times.

That he went over there.

In the media it usually was
about Bodo...

where he left of.

And about Rognan, where he
was last seen.

Fauske was never mentioned.

When we googled Fauske for
the first time we saw...

that there is a big station of the
Norse intelligence agency...

where they cooperate with the NSA.

What would he do there?
Did he just thought it was interesting?

Did he just make a selfie with
his kayak, because that was cool...

and could he use that for
another presentation?

Or did he meet someone there?

Do I have proof? No nothing.

They do things that are
not acceptable.

Thanks to Snowden
we know the NSA...

spies on its own civilians.

The American Justice investigates
the leaks...

of detailed information about
internet and phone wiretaps...

from the NSA.

Yesterday the 29 year old
Edward Snowden...

said he had given information
to the British paper 'The Guardian'

Last Friday the The Washington Post
and The Guardian leaked...

that the American intelligence agencies...

had direct access to phone
and online data...

of users of big companies like
Google, Facebook and Apple.

Snowden realized his unveiling...

has big consequences for him personally.

Between information security experts
there was this idea...

that the spying was much bigger
than previously known.

Snowden confirmed that,
it actually went on.

This is on of the internal NSA-slides
we have thanks to Snowden.

The NSA calls that
'strategic partnerships'.

With the perspective of an European,
I would say:

With all those technologies who are
bugged on purpose...

so you could better track a society?

If you turn off all those businesses in
the Netherlands...

you'll turn the country off.

The suppliers we have now.
Are almost always American.

They implemented backdoors
since 2008...

in chipsets of computers.

What goes from America to
Europe...

all gets touched by the NSA.

The NSA has mountains of data.

They just started building a new
data center...

just outside of Washington,
because Utah's...


is almost full.

That is 100.00 m2 of hard disks
multiple floors high.

It is almost full
because they are spying on the World.

A lot gets reviewed.
Very few t*rrorists, sadly.

Especially 'Doctors Without Borders' and
environment defense...

and the staff of Angela Merkel,
8 years before she became chancellor.

Terrorism, that's not
what this is about.

Arjen warned us about the
fact that all our technologies...

are filled with backdoors,
hardware and software.

If the software is not
open source...

you'll have no idea what it
does with your information.

You should expect the worst.

We know that Australia,
and Zealand...

United Kingdom, Canada and
the US as instigator...

massively collects data,
and trade them with each other.

Named 'The Five Eyes'.

Thanks to Snowden we know
it's not five...

but fourteen pairs of eyes.
Norway included.

Would Fauske, where espionage domes,
the Norse eyes, are stationed...

have something to do with
Arjens disappearance?

WikiLeaks is known for
several big leaks.

Especially leaks about
acts of w*r.

But in the recent years of
WikiLeaks it was mainly about...

big leaks they published.

The DNC-leaks with e-mails
of the Democratic Party.

Also Vault 7-leaks.

Those are some secrets
of the CIA...

about what the CIA can do
to hack people.

Included was they have
Samsung Smart TV...

recording all conversations
in the room.

And how they can activate your
phone from a distance.

But it also was leaks that where very
dangerous for them if it got out.

For instance the CIA could impersonate the Russians...

to cover their own computer
break ins.

Very important espionage data
from the CIA...

was published by WikiLeaks.

Is it possible Assange...

could have given a part of
Vault 7 to Arjen?

Technically that's possible.

It's an USB-stick.
Nothing more.

That's possible.

I can imagine that if intelligence
services know...

you are carrying them
around your neck...

they would keep a closer look on you.

People involved with WikiLeaks...

couldn't travel over the
whole world anymore.

Still Arjen could.

We know he said to us...

he wanted to go to London
just before he left.

Just in case things went south
with WikiLeaks...

and with Assange.

On 26th 2021 an article
appears on Yahoo News.

It explained how serious the
CIA took the w*r on WikiLeaks.

From current revelations
of Yahoo News...

turns out the CIA was doing...

hunts on people who
where involved with WikiLeaks.

That was about homicide.

The kidnapping of Assange
from the embassy....

But they also had someone
in their picture, a WikiLeaks-affiliate...

who went to different countries
with information on Vault 7.

So you quickly realize
that could be Arjen...

because he was constantly
away in 2017.

Work to train journalists.
He flew back and forth.

Including America.

Could Arjen be the person
with vault 7 on his USB-stick?

That question pops into my head
since that Yahoo article.

That's because we couldn't get
a clear explanation...

on what happened to him.

This could be the explanation
for what happened to him.

For al those holes in those scenarios.

I also know I could just project
this story onto him.

But at the same time I see
it as a serious option.

So a dude involved with WikiLeaks,
always traveling.

That could be Arjen.

And he was in Assange's inner circle...

and used to visit him
in the embassy.

Could it really be...

Arjen was way more involved
at WikiLeaks than I thought?

That he could be the one who
had secret data on Vault 7...

around his neck?

Why don't you want to
go on record?

What have I got to say?

Not about BuZA?

Come on, tell me.

How did they get you?

They did not 'get me'.

I discovered something and thought
I could make a difference.

Change the system from within.

What did you discover?

Doesn't matter.

My managers waved it off.
Said I made it up.

When I pressed thru.
It got eerie.

The Dutch Intelligence Agency
arrived at my doorstep the next day.

Annoyingly friendly.

'If you go thru with this, sir.
There is no more future for you.'

You will not be able to find
a normal day job.

So yes, that's when I was done
with The Netherlands.

At least you got nothing to hide,
right?

Mam 'find my friend'.

Julian Assange was stuck
for seven years...

at the Ecuadorian embassy
in London.

Edward Snowden cannot leave
Russia since 2014.

The life of a whistleblower almost
always has a dramatic turn...

after he or she blew on the whistle.

Because of the sacrifices they make...

We now know secrets that would
otherwise remain secret.

WikiLeaks-associates were seen as
paranoids.

It mainly bothered the CIA...

that information of
Vault 7 was leaked.

'Only a handful of
individuals have access'.

Only a few people had access
to those records.

The CIA wanted those back.

The chance Arjen...

had been eliminated...

is something high on my list
of possible scenarios.

We had a deal.
I thought I could trust you.

This is safer.

I keep finding strange clues.

I want to make sure, that's
what you would do.

Listen, you know there are people...

who don't want you to look for them.

Who find me more quickly if I had location sharing on.

I can't protect you from here.
-I can protect myself.

Smart a*s. I know you want to
make a success out of this...

but please be careful.

Ok. I'll keep you posted.

And just call me by
my first name.

'In December 2020 a German hacker claimed...

who was closely connected
with WikiLeaks...

and helping with the publications
of Vault 7...

that an attempt has been made
to break into his apartment...

who he had secured with an
extensive locking mechanism.

The hacker, Andy Muller-Maguhn...

also said he was being followed
by mysterious figures...

and that his secured phone
was being tapped.'

Arjen had been through the
exact same thing.

'On the question if the CIA
had broken...

into the homes of WikiLeaks employees...

stolen their hard drives or
got them deleted...

a former intelligence officer
denied to go into details...

but said there where some
actions taken.

I immediately went thru old
messages from him.

I saw he told me that...

he discovered that in July...

a screw from his front door lock was unscrewed.

He thought it was an Intelligence Agency.

Do you Know Jacob Appelbaum,
one of TOR's developers?

It is a known secret he also
had the Snowden files.

He has just made an official
information request at the FBI...

for research on Arjen Kamphuis.

After that he got wrecked by
secret service, just like I was.

That's what happens with whistleblowers.

I'm very curious if he wants
to talk to us.

Ok, so we need to talk to him.

It's not somebody who you can just call up.

Appelbaum has his request...

wherein he requested the FBI to
on all info they have about Arjen...

published online.

Their answer is they can't
share information because...

even if Arjen is missing for years...

officially he is never pronounced dead.

Spitsbergen, Bodo, Rognan, Fauske.

This story is way bigger than Norway alone.

Bigger than getting into a kayak or not.

Bigger than going off grid or not.

If Arjen is just 'some dude'.
Than I'm just getting started.

Arjen was already living in Germany
for a while.

In that time I also left to Berlin...

because there was a lively
InfoSec community.

All interesting people in terms of
information security...

where walking around in Berlin.
Or close by.

So if you had to deal with
that subject...

it was appealing to be there.

If that Jacob guy gets the FBI so far as
to share files about Arjen...

If anyone can do it...

Something has happened over there right?
In Berlin when Arjen lived there.

This is not only about Norway,
This is going way further back.

I really underestimated you.
Nice work smart a*s.

Smart a*s?

What?

Are you listening at my
conversations with Jolein?

I'm listening. I think along, yes.
What the f*ck?

I'm keeping an eye on you,
just to help.

For you safety.
-For my safety?

And that hack, that was you also?

Yes.

You are no better than al those
enemies you talk about.

What's that all about? That's not true.
I've shared everything with you.

Nadia.

We are a good team.
You have people skills.

I have background information,
the know how.

And a total lack of respect.

You tell me you fight for privacy
and than you do this?

Don't you get how f*cked that is?
-You don't get how f*cked that is.

How f*cked this world is.
I just want to be one step ahead.

I don't want you to make real mistakes.
Mistakes with real consequences.

Nadia.

Nadia.

Jacob Appelbaum is a very
intelligent person...

who was super motivated.

And just like that...

he is done..