Hi, I'm Ryan Levy.

Welcome to Cyber reasons Malicious Life. To say that Sven Ulf Camphouse is an eccentric character would be an understatement.

In his Stack Exchange profile he describes himself as quote,

his royal highness Prince Sven Ulf, hacker of all frequencies, God Emperor of Amsterdam.

Former Associates who worked with him in his native country, the Netherlands,

describe him as a brilliant programmer,

but also as a loner who has trouble connecting with others around him.

For example, one colleague recalls that as a help desk representative for the Dutch

ISP Exis-For-All, Sven would representative for the Dutch i. Sveen would often confuse customers.

He was very smart, too smart for customers by the way.

Oftentimes they couldn't understand his techno babble when he tried to help them.

In 1996, Sven started a company called CB3 Rob that did security checks for other organizations.

One such client was a web hosting company called Cyber bunker, which is House Venmette yet another eccentric Dutchman, Hermann

Johann Zent.

The two men were quite different in both their physical appearance and motivations.

Sven was a slender 20-something youth with a thick pair of eyebrows and a deep penetrating look, while Zent was already in his late 30s and

sported what some commentators described as a James Bond villain look with pale white

skin and long wavy blonde hair.

Sven described himself as an internet freedom fighter along the lines of Julian Assange of Wikileaks, while Zent was more of a businessman.

He started his journey in the tech world as a dealer in computer parts and later established a few web hosting companies.

What brought these two very different types together was probably their shared hatred towards authority.

Sven had a rich history of tackles with his managers

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