FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado

https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/03/computer-scientist-goes-silent-after-fbi-raid-and-purging-from-university-website/

A prominent computer scientist who has spent 20 years publishing academic papers on cryptography, privacy, and cybersecurity has gone incommunicado, had his professor profile, email account, and phone number removed by his employer, Indiana University, and had his homes raided by the FBI. No one knows why.\
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Xiaofeng Wang has a long list of prestigious titles. He was the associate dean for research at Indiana University's Luddy School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering, a fellow at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a tenured professor at Indiana University at Bloomington. According to his employer, he has served as principal investigator on research projects totaling nearly $23 million over his 21 years there.

https://luddy.indiana.edu/contact/profile/?XiaoFeng_Wang

Profile of XiaoFeng Wang\
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The profile you are searching for is no longer an active account at the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering. If you are trying to reach a former faculty or staff at Luddy, please contact us at luddy@indiana.edu for support.

His wife, Nianli Ma, has also disappeared. Neither Wang nor Ma have been publicly accused of any wrongdoing.

This is what it's going to be like until we rid ourselves of Trump. People will simply disappear, without any accusations of wrongdoing.

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