Aside: VK = de Volkskrant.

I thought the headline was saying the report was from VK, as in VKontakte, the Russian social media site, implying an additional level of intrigue.

This is the original piece in Dutch: https://www.volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v/2024/sabotage-in-iran...

One of the things it mentions is the bike crash, there was an investigation but they couldn't find proof for it being anything other than an accident.

Nice to see that European intelligence services are still capable of something. The article mentioned the government didn't know - should they have known? Not sure what the law on that in Netherlands is. From what I read, Netherland's special services did know, it wasn't him working privately with US and Israel.

I think stuxnet was made famous (at least in my circles) by this quora post: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-most-sophisticated-piece-o...

"Van Sabben, a civil engineer by profession, died in a motorbike crash near his home in Dubai two years later."

Now that's... unfortunate...

What would have been his motivation to assist with this operation ?

Another discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38909220

"Van Sabben, a civil engineer by profession, died in a motorbike crash near his home in Dubai two years later."

This is a glorious story for the conspiracy theorists!