In The Digital Trenches, Modderkolk shows where the danger comes from. How Russians go step by step to infiltrate critical infrastructure and undermine democracy. And how they plan influence operations and secretly steal information. 

While Europe is understandably captivated by Putin's threats, China plays a smarter and sneakier game. More in the background, less tangible, and also less well understood. Modderkolk shows how Xi’s aides subtly infiltrate Dutch systems and steal highly sensitive data. 

And then there's the omnipotence of the American surveillance state, led by a reckless Trump. Where are his tentacles? And is there a way to escape from them?  

In this theater lecture, Modderkolk makes this invisible struggle tangible and shows what is at stake. How and where the Dutch security services are fighting back and are certainly not powerless. 

Huib Modderkolk is an investigative journalist for the Volkskrant. He is an expert in the field of intelligence services and digital warfare and has written several books such as This is Something You Really Don't Want to Know and It Is War But No One Sees It.

• production Haagsch College, in collaboration with the Volkskrant