Editing Andy Müller-Maguhn

{{Short description|German hacker (born 1971)}}
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|caption     = Müller-Maguhn at the May 22, 2009 [[SIGINT (conference)|SIGINT conference]]
|birth_date  = {{Birth date and age|1971|10|03|df=y}}
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|known_for   = Former spokesman of the [[Chaos Computer Club]]
|occupation  = Hacker
|nationality = [[Germany|German]]
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'''Andy Müller-Maguhn''' (born 3 October 1971) is a member of the [[Germany|German]] [[Hacker (computer security)|hacker]] association [[Chaos Computer Club|Chaos Computer Club (CCC)]]. Having been a member since 1986,<ref name=Computerwoche/> 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.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Spanish court to question witnesses over 'illegal surveillance' of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange |url=https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252490625/Spanish-court-to-question-witness-over-illegal-surveillance-of-WikiLeaks-founder-Julian-Assange |access-date=2022-03-21 |website=ComputerWeekly.com |language=en}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Andy Mueller-Maguhn - ICANN |url=https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/andy-mueller-maguhn-2014-05-23-en |access-date=2022-03-21 |website=www.icann.org}}</ref>{{Non-primary source needed|date=May 2023}}

In 1995, Müller-Maguhn founded the "Datenreisebüro" ('Data Travel Agency'), based in a [[Berlin]] office since 2002.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.datenreisen.de/arbyte.html|title=Datenreisen - Arbyte|date=2010-10-28}}</ref>{{Non-primary source needed|date=May 2023}}

In 2005 and 2006, Müller-Maguhn was involved on the side of the parents of the deceased hacker [[Boris Floricic]], better known as [[Tron (hacker)|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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.spiegel.de/international/suing-wikipedia-how-a-dead-hacker-shut-down-wikipedia-germany-a-396307.html|title=Suing Wikipedia: How a Dead Hacker Shut Down Wikipedia Germany|date=2006-01-20|work=[[Der Spiegel]]|access-date=2012-11-28}}</ref>

As of 2018, Müller-Maguhn runs a [[data center]], does advocacy, and security consulting for companies and governments. His work has taken him around the world, including [[Moscow]], where he attended a security conference organized by the [[Ministry of Defence (Russia)|Russian Ministry of Defence]] in 2016 and 2017, [[London]] and [[Brazil]].<ref name=":1" />

== 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.<ref>{{cite news|last=Laaf|first=Meike|title=Domscheit-Berg zurück im Club|url=https://www.taz.de/CCC-macht-Entscheidung-rueckgaengig/!87146/|newspaper=[[die tageszeitung]]|date=2012-02-06|access-date=2012-11-28|language=de}}</ref> At a general meeting in February 2012, this decision was reverted, while Müller-Maguhn was not reelected to the board.<ref name=Computerwoche>{{cite news|title=Stühlerücken beim CCC: Müller-Maguhn nicht mehr im Vorstand|url=http://www.computerwoche.de/management/it-macher/2504522/|newspaper=[[Computerwoche]]|date=2012-01-20|access-date=2012-11-28|language=de}}</ref>

In 2011, Müller-Maguhn's company [[BuggedPlanet|Bugged Planet]] worked with [[WikiLeaks]] on the Spy Files release. Forbes suggested that Müller-Maguhn and Bugged Planet might be WikiLeaks' source for the Spy Files.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Greenberg |first=Andy |title=WikiLeaks Unveils 160 Firms' Surveillance Gear Sales Docs, Still No Submissions System |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2011/12/01/wikileaks-unveils-160-firms-surveillance-gear-sales-docs-still-no-submission-system/ |url-status=live |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20230515202946/http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2011/12/01/wikileaks-unveils-160-firms-surveillance-gear-sales-docs-still-no-submission-system/ |archive-date=May 15, 2023 |access-date=2024-01-27 |website=Forbes |language=en}}</ref>

The [[Mueller report|Mueller Report]] inferred that Müller-Maguhn may have assisted with transferring the [[2016 Democratic National Committee email leak|DNC emails]] or the [[Podesta emails]] to WikiLeaks.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |author=Marshall Cohen, Kay Guerrero and Arturo Torres |title=Exclusive: Security reports reveal how Assange turned an embassy into a command post for election meddling |url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/15/politics/assange-embassy-exclusive-documents/index.html |access-date=2022-03-21 |website=CNN}}</ref> In 2016, he delivered a USB to Assange, which he said contained personal messages for Assange, who had stopped using email.<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |title=A German hacker offers a rare look inside the secretive world of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks |language=en-US |newspaper=Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/a-german-hacker-offers-a-rare-look-inside-the-secretive-world-of-julian-assange-and-wikileaks/2018/01/17/e6211180-f311-11e7-b390-a36dc3fa2842_story.html |access-date=2022-03-21 |issn=0190-8286}}</ref> In July 2016, on the same day "Guccifer 2.0" sent Wikileaks encrypted files, Müller-Maguhn and Wau Holland board member [[Bernd Fix]] met with Assange for over four hours.<ref name="SecurityReportsRevealHowCNN-20190715">{{Cite web |last1=Cohen |first1=Marshall |last2=Guerrero |first2=Kay |last3=Torres |first3=Arturo |date=July 15, 2019 |title=Exclusive: Security reports reveal how Assange turned an embassy into a command post for election meddling |url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/15/politics/assange-embassy-exclusive-documents/index.html |access-date=July 15, 2019 |website=[[CNN]]}}</ref> According to ''The Washington Post'', a former WikiLeaks associate said that, in 2016, Müller-Maguhn and a colleague oversaw submissions to WikiLeaks server. Müller-Maguhn said he did not oversee submissions.<ref name=":1" />

Müller-Maguhn was an alleged target of [[Julian Assange#Surveillance of Assange in the embassy|UC Global's surveillance of Julian Assange]] in the embassy.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":2" /><ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-12-05 |title=David Morales: "No trabajo para la CIA" |url=https://cnnespanol.cnn.com/2019/12/05/david-morales-no-trabajo-para-la-cia/ |access-date=2022-03-21 |website=CNN |language=es}}</ref>

Müller-Maguhn is vice president for the [[Wau Holland Foundation]]<ref name=":0" /> and a member of the Advisory Board for the [[Courage Foundation]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Advisory Board {{!}} Courage Foundation |url=https://couragefound.org/advisory-board/ |access-date=2022-03-21 |language=en-US}}</ref>

He appeared with [[Julian Assange]] on Episode 8 and 9 of ''[[World Tomorrow|The World Tomorrow]]'', "Cypherpunks: 1/2".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/326070|title=Assange 'The World Tomorrow' — Ep 8: Cypherpunks Part 1|author=Anne Sewell|date=2012-06-05|publisher=DigitalJournal.com}}</ref>

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

== References ==
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==External links==
{{Commons category|Andy Müller-Maguhn}}
* [https://berlin.ccc.de/~andy/ Müller-Maguhn's homepage]

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