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Rop Gonggrijp, who was 21 at the time, founded the hacker magazine Hack-Tic in early 1989, and Hack-Tic Network in 1990. Later, in 1992-1993, he co-founded XS4ALL, one of the first independent Internet providers in Europe. After leaving XS4ALL, Rop Goggrijp founded a number of companies in the field of computer security and cryptography. In 2006 Gonggrijp, with others, launched a campaign to criticize the use of computers for voting in democratic elections in the Netherlands. He was inspired to start Hack-Tic by NEABBS, through reading the Datenschleuder (D), 2600 (USA) and the Amsterdam squatter magazine Bluf!. He was also collaborating with Professor Herschberg at the University of Leiden at the time, which is how we met.