Norway Norway - Arjen Kamphuis, 47, Dutch citizen, Bodø, 20 Aug 2018

[ZaZara]

Teken van leven van Arjen Kamphuis

Among family and friends of Arjen Kamphuis there is a glimmer of hope after the discovery that his phone has been used. "We have signals that the person who turned it on also knows the PIN code of the SIM card. So that indicates that it was Arjen himself," says Ancilla van de Leest, a good friend of Kamphuis.

The replacement of the SIM card by a German one doesn't have to be something remarkable, according to Van de Leest. " Because of his work, it is logical that he has multiple cards. And he also lived in Germany for a while."

Kamphuis is a well-known figure in the international world of hackers and cyber security. He advises governments, journalists and whistleblower sites such as Wikileaks. For example, he wrote the book 'Information Security for Journalists', which has been translated several times.

His disappearance immediately feeds all kinds of conspiracy theories on the Internet. Van de Leest: "Of course. Arjen is always working on projects that are not always pleasing to everyone. But lately he hasn't been doing anything else than usual."

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Arjen Kamphuis is an expert in cyber security and that is the core of his work. He actually has a real job with a real company. Linked-IN profile here, he worked for all the big IT-consultancies.

 

[Chiatos]

As an expert in cyber security, Arjen knows that he can be traced through his phone. If he wouldn't want to be found, he wouldn't even bother to switch SIM card. He would remove the battery.

It doesn't make much sense.

 

[ZaZara]

Status i søket etter savnede Arjen Kamphuis

Norwegian Police:


Press release English version :

New information concerning Arjen Kamphuis

The latest certain observation of Arjen Kamphuis was the 20th of August, as he checked out from a hotel in Bodø. He was on his vacation at the time, traveling in Norway. Now the Police has got certified information about his telephones, which are registrated in Stavanger the 30th of August. This is according to telecommunication data. One can not be sure that the phones were operated by Kamphuis, but this is one of several theories that is being investigated.

The police has recieved a lot of information from people the last few days, both observations and other types of information. One of the leads we are following is a possible observation of the missing person in Denmark. Everything is being checked and registered into the Police investigation. The case is open for different outcomes, but still we have not found anything that indicates that a crime has been commited.

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According to his friends, Kamphuis often wear black- or camouflage colored clothes. On the latest certain observation of Arjen Kamphuis , the 20th of August, he was wearing khaki colored hiking clothes.

The Police ask that all who might have information about the missing Dutchman contact 02800

All information is considered valuable.


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Stavanger is 50 kms from Vikesa (where his phone connected according to earlier reports.)

 

[Chiatos]

Basestasjonopplysninger viser at to telefoner som er knyttet til den savnede, ble brukt i en kort periode den 30.august. Den ene telefonen er knyttet til han som privatperson, mens den andre er hans jobbtelefon. Begge telefonene hadde signaler som varte i under én time, forteller politiadvokat i Nordland, Trond Lakselvhaug.

Google translation: Base station information shows that two phones associated with the missing were used for a short period of 30th August. One phone is linked to him as an individual while the other is his workphone. Both phones had signals that lasted less than one hour, says police lawyer in Nordland, Trond Lakselvhaug.

En kvinne i Danmark skal ha uttalt at hun var sikker på å ha observert Arjen den 3. september.
Google translation: A woman in Denmark should have stated that she was sure to have observed Arjen on September 3th.

Bekrefter mobilsignal fra savnede Arjens telefon

 

[ZaZara]

A Security Expert Tied to WikiLeaks Vanishes, and the Internet Is Abuzz :: WRAL.com

Dutch police searched Kamphuis’ apartment in Amsterdam, taking DNA samples from his toothbrush, van de Leest said.

Partial breakthroughs have only added to the mystery. Police revealed that 10 days after Kamphuis had disappeared in the High North, someone tried to use his cellphone near the village of Vikesa, 650 miles south of Bodo, attempting to activate a German SIM card.

Unconfirmed sightings of the missing man have been reported in Sweden and as far away as southern Denmark, in two towns on the North Sea coast, Esbjerg and Ribe. Those reports and the SIM card pulled German, Danish and Swedish police into the investigation.

A grass-roots, crowdsourced hunt has also taken shape online, with people passing on potential clues and sightings to police. Some false leads have drawn the attention of amateur sleuths and the news media, including excitement a few days ago about the sighting of an abandoned tent in Lofoten, an archipelago north of Bodo that is popular with hikers, which turned out to be unrelated to Kamphuis.


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[ZaZara]

Louis Kramer is a Dutch native living in Bodo. He was interviewed by Hart van Nederland earlier this week.

Louis kramer‏ @louiskramer
Louis kramer on Twitter

Dit staat in de lokale webkranten van Bodø. Een getuige heeft Arjen Kamphuis bij Saltstraumen net even buiten Bodø gezien op de 20 augustus.

This has been published in the local web papers of Bodø. A witness saw Arjen Kamphuis at Saltstraumen just outside Bodø on the 20th of August.

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The local paper, Avisa Norland is behind a strict paywall. Only the front page can be viewed without payment.

Picture on the front page:

Have you seen a white station wagon?
Witness may have seen that Arjen Kamphuis was picked up in Saltstraumen


Btw, Saltstraumen is a small strait with one of the strongest tidal currents in the world. It is located in the municipality of Bodø in Nordland county, Norway. It is located about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) southeast of the town of Bodø. (Wikipedia)

 

[Periwinkl3]

His Wikipedia page is now gone.

 

[Chiatos]

Louis Kramer is a Dutch native living in Bodo. He was interviewed by Hart van Nederland earlier this week.

Louis kramer‏ @louiskramer
Louis kramer on Twitter

Dit staat in de lokale webkranten van Bodø. Een getuige heeft Arjen Kamphuis bij Saltstraumen net even buiten Bodø gezien op de 20 augustus.

This has been published in the local web papers of Bodø. A witness saw Arjen Kamphuis at Saltstraumen just outside Bodø on the 20th of August.

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The local paper, Avisa Norland is behind a strict paywall. Only the front page can be viewed without payment.

Picture on the front page:

Have you seen a white station wagon?
Witness may have seen that Arjen Kamphuis was picked up in Saltstraumen


Btw, Saltstraumen is a small strait with one of the strongest tidal currents in the world. It is located in the municipality of Bodø in Nordland county, Norway. It is located about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) southeast of the town of Bodø. (Wikipedia)

Would that have been round 4-5 pm? You can catch a glimpse of the following text: Dette var mellom klokken 16 og 17..

Is it known in what direction (to or from Bodo) the stationwagon was going?

 

[dotr]

A Security Expert Tied to WikiLeaks Vanishes, and the Internet Is Abuzz
By Henrik Pryser Libell
Sept. 7, 2018
OSLO — In a remote Norwegian town north of the Arctic Circle, a cybersecurity expert with ties to WikiLeaks checked out of a hotel, dressed in khaki hiking gear and carrying heavy baggage.

That was on Aug. 20. No one has reported seeing him since.

The disappearance of Arjen Kamphuis, 46, has so far flummoxed a widening police investigation that has chased stray clues and false leads in Norway, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden. Norwegian police have released statements saying that they have no idea whether he was a victim of foul play, but that they “are open to all possibilities.”
“After all this, there is no scenario that I haven’t thought about. It could literally be anything,” Ms. van de Leest said.

“He wasn’t afraid to make enemies,” she added. “He did not ‘hide his opinions under a chair,’ as we say in Holland.”
The uncertainty, and Mr. Kamphuis’s links to WikiLeaks, the anti-secrecy organization that has run afoul of governments and other powerful interests, has the internet buzzing with conspiracy theories. Some suggest a kidnapping — or worse — involving Russia, the C.I.A., MI6, Islamists or the Clintons, while others ask if he intended to disappear, possibly on some secret assignment for WikiLeaks.

Other spurs to speculation include that Bodo, the town where he was last seen, is home to Norway’s main military air base, that the armed forces’ joint operations center is nearby, and that part of the country’s cyberdefense center is hidden in a mountain outside town. Investigators have ruled out any connection between the military presence and his disappearance.

Friends say that Mr. Kamphuis, who is Dutch, was genuinely in Norway for vacation, had been there a few times before, and had plans to return to the Netherlands."

 

[ZaZara]

Would that have been round 4-5 pm? You can catch a glimpse of the following text: Dette var mellom klokken 16 og 17..

Is it known in what direction (to or from Bodo) the stationwagon was going?

All tips should go to the police. IMHO this one is among them.

I was watching the evening news of EditieNL. Stationwagon wasn't mentioned. Highlights:

Mysterieuze verdwijning in Noorwegen

- Dutch police officers will travel to Norway on Sunday to help with the search for AK
- Ancilla says: we hope that he is still alive, that is the most important thing for us. We might consider this [ AK's mobile phone connecting to the network ] as a sign of life, if so, we are very happy about that.
- Ancilla also says they cannot exclude anything. AK's disappearance may be related to his work. Then again, he may have suffered an accident while hiking. They cannot exclude that either.
- Tech-reporter's opinion is that since AK is an expert in cyber security, it is highly unlikely that any random person could get access to his phone. So there is a clear chance that this was indeed AK.

But no one knows for sure.

 

[Lorrie]

Would that have been round 4-5 pm? You can catch a glimpse of the following text: Dette var mellom klokken 16 og 17..

Is it known in what direction (to or from Bodo) the stationwagon was going?

It was to Bodø the stationwagon was going at 4-5 pm... But later on you can choose to go left to Bodø or right to Fauske.

 

[ZaZara]

It was to Bodø the stationwagon was going at 4-5 pm... But later on you can choose to go left to Bodø or right to Fauske.

Can you read the entire article, Lorrie?

I would love to know if this person was carrying his luggage. It was said he had a foldable canoo with him and his luggae would have been considerable. (Backpack?)

 

[Lorrie]

Can you read the entire article, Lorrie?

I would love to know if this person was carrying his luggage. It was said he had a foldable canoo with him and his luggae would have been considerable. (Backpack?)

It was a dark dressed man with a middle-sized backpack. I do find it strange to take all the luggage with you to see the Saltstraumen for then to go back to Bodø to catch the train, why not store it at the hotel or at the railway station?

If it really was him, maybe his intentions was to catch a ride with someone southbound instead of going back to Bodø and take the train?

 

[ZaZara]

It was a dark dressed man with a middle-sized backpack. I do find it strange to take all the luggage with you to see the Saltstraumen for then to go back to Bodø to catch the train, why not store it at the hotel or at the railway station?

If it really was him, maybe his intentions was to catch a ride with someone southbound instead of going back to Bodø and take the train?

Probably wasn't him. He would have been dressed in lighter colours that day according to the local police. The lightest canoe available measures 37x25 inches when folded. would that fit into a medium backpack I wonder? Uh uh... no. (don't know if he bought that type, but it gives an indication.)

His luggage seems to have disappeared with him, or was it found in storage at the railway station?

 

[Lorrie]

Probably not, the driver isn't sure either.. He states it was a man with long blond hair and glasses, late 40 to 50 year old. Not too many of them around. But the information is a bit detailed.

Haven't heard anything about his luggage so I guess it disappeared with him.

 

[ZaZara]

Probably not, the driver isn't sure either.. He states it was a man with long blond hair and glasses, late 40 to 50 year old. Not too many of them around. But the information is a bit detailed.

Haven't heard anything about his luggage so I guess it disappeared with him.

Did the driver tell where he took him? Railway station in Bodø comes to mind, was that where the man got off?

 

[Lorrie]

Did the driver tell where he took him? Railway station in Bodø comes to mind, was that where the man got off?

No, the problem is that the driver who think he saw him had no space in his car for more passengers. But a white merchedes station wagon stopped, so the newspaper hopes that this car driver would contact them!

In August it will still have been a lot of tourists in Saltstraumen, fishing there is very popular among Germans and other nationalities. So it can have been tourists who picked him up...

 

[Chiatos]

Norwegian police officer explaining in English:
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[Lorrie]

The video shows the wrong hotel and not the Scandic hotel he stayed at, beside the only new information it gives is that he spend some 7 days before at another hotel in town. So he would have stayed 10 days in Bodø, what have done those days before he disapeared?

 

[ZaZara]

Ancilla on Twitter

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#findArjen update; Dutch police is traveling to Norway so further investigate. I really thought he’d be found/returned by now

18 days since his disappearence now. It’s a long time for a person to be lost.