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Title: Who Killed Cryptome.org?
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Wired Blog Network
URL Source: http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/05/who_killed_cryp.html
Published: May 1, 2007
Author: Kevin Poulsen
Post Date: 2007-05-02 10:42:12 by aristeides
Keywords: None
Views: 158
Comments: 10
Who Killed >http://Cryptome.org? It's the one secret radical open information activist John Young can't crack: what drove his ISP, Verio/NTT, to finally pull the plug on his website, http://Cryptome.org, where for years he's posted every sensitive document, photo or map he could get his hands on. Young -- a 72-year-old architect in New York -- has hosted countless government documents with the "For Official Use Only" markings intact; exposed the names of long-ago CIA collaborators; the alleged identities of current British intelligence agents; compiled a travelogue-style guide to the Pennsylvania mountain believed to be the vice president's "undisclosed location"; and even put up a map showing where major Manhattan gas pipelines are buried, which he posted ahead of the Republican National Convention in New York. So what happened, after all that, to make Verio decide to stop hosting him now? Verio isn't saying. Spokeswoman Marla Kramer sent THREAT LEVEL this statement: On April 20, 2007, Verio provided Cryptome with notification of the termination via both email and certified mail. Verio provided Cryptome with two week's notice to allow the organization to obtain another service provider. Verio respects both the rights of its customers and those of third parties. Verio is confident that it has been fair and consistent in its approach to these matters, and stands by its decision in this instance. It's admirable that Verio won't discuss confidential customer information with a reporter, but somewhat baffling that it's stonewalling Young on the same question, referring him to its>http://www.verio.com/about/legal/aup.cfm">its AUP. Maybe he violated the clause prohibiting subscribers from "engaging in activities, whether lawful or unlawful, that Verio determines to be harmful to its subscribers, operations, reputation, goodwill, or customer relations." Or maybe he didn't violate any clause, and that's why they can't say. Maybe the wrong person at Verio finally read Young's site. Young goes overboard, but there's always been something comforting about Cryptome's existence. Remember, the New York Times sat on the NSA domestic surveillance story for a year, and the L.A. Times killed its story on AT&T whistleblower Mark Klein after talking to the top U.S. intelligence official. If a CIA document ever leaked that revealed JFK was killed by space aliens, Cryptome was the one outlet that I was 100% sure could not be cowed into hiding the truth. Young has until Friday to find a new home. He vows to keep Cryptome online, "in the US or elsewhere. Or if necessary, underground, or via means not easily shuttered, or by way of whatever is invented for opposing technologies of information control." Maybe Young will find his own undisclosed location. Posted by Kevin Poulsen 5:19:00 PM in Cover-Ups
Verio customer information is confidential. As a matter of policy, Verio will not discuss the specific details of any customer. Verio consistently investigates and works with its customers to resolve issues. Recent events, however, related to Cryptome presented a different situation that Verio was unable to reconcile with its AUP. Based on these events, Verio made the decision that it could no longer support Cryptome as a customer.
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The article's links to Cryptome either didn't work or were extremely slow, so I left them out. I suspect the site is still being attacked by those bots.
To reason, indeed, he was not in the habit of attending. His mode of arguing, if it is to be so called, was one not uncommon among dull and stubborn persons, who are accustomed to be surrounded by their inferiors. He asserted a proposition; and, as often as wiser people ventured respectfully to show that it was erroneous, he asserted it again, in exactly the same words, and conceived that, by doing so, he at once disposed of all objections. - Macaulay, "History of England," Vol. 1, Chapter 6, on James II.
I didn't know that! He vows to keep Cryptome online, "in the US or elsewhere. Or if necessary, underground, or via means not easily shuttered, or by way of whatever is invented for opposing technologies of information control." Maybe Young will find his own undisclosed location. Good for him!
"Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism." ~George Washington
testing ping
"Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism." ~George Washington
Same message on http://cryptome.com today.
To reason, indeed, he was not in the habit of attending. His mode of arguing, if it is to be so called, was one not uncommon among dull and stubborn persons, who are accustomed to be surrounded by their inferiors. He asserted a proposition; and, as often as wiser people ventured respectfully to show that it was erroneous, he asserted it again, in exactly the same words, and conceived that, by doing so, he at once disposed of all objections. - Macaulay, "History of England," Vol. 1, Chapter 6, on James II.
ping test okay
Shades of krystalnacht!
ZIEG HEIL to the new Fourth Reich of AmeriKA! Law Enforcement Against Prohibition Works for me Have to have the correct url "You can not save the Constitution by destroying it."
That link worked for me.
The congressional folks may have more to demand answers about suppressing Deepwater: subpoena Verio, show the defense cartel's dirty fighting is getting dirtier. The archived Deepwater material will be posted shortly. BTW, somebody today sent a note about how widespread TEMPEST inadequacy is in the military, with examples (below). A2 writes: Having worked in the private sector contracting low voltage systems to all military agencies for more than 20 years I can categorically state that USCG, USN, US Army, USAF, and USMC all have violations regarding TEMPEST requirements in their land facilities. I have personally witnessed the following: Audio inter-communications systems with remote door release. Copper connected exterior telephones and "door bell" buttons with remote door or gate strike control lines. EPABX lines to non secure base private and military telco switches. EPABX dock side lines to cutter TEMPEST to non secure base private and military switches. CATV coaxial cable feeds to provide TV service to TEMPEST operations personnel. CCTV video coaxial cables and non shielded twisted pair control lines, and CAT 5 cables to exterior camera systems outside the TEMPEST. Unfiltered copper cables for DC and data cables to non secure FACP's and radio reporting transmitters exterior to TEMPEST. Utilizing copper conductors entering and or exiting a TEMPEST must be filtered, routed through an approved TEMPEST entry cabinet, installed in secure conduits and or converted to fiber optic transmission systems to eliminate EM radiation outside TEMPEST's, SCIFS's and HEMPS. Bearing this in mind I think tempest leakage aboard USCG cutters to be a minor infraction of security standards. And this strange message from Verio: Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 18:30:12 GMT To: http://jya[at]pipeline.com From: http://service[at]veriohosting.com Subject: Account iptest was terminated The account iptest was terminated on 01-MAY-2007. Reason: This server account was ordered to the wrong customer - Verio Web Hosting Support 1 May 2007. Add Verio messages. Danna Thompson is indeed stonewalling for whatever undisclosable reason to terminate service in contrast to previous Verio notifications since 1999. This never-to-be-explained self-gagging by ISPs has become characteristic around the net due to covert and open governmental, commercial and personal aggressions to suppress information. Librarians and lawyers, among others, battling to overturn clamps on information, have learned to exhibit coded signals to the public to indicate undisclosable measures to suppress. Could be that is what Danna and Verio are signaling. We've received over 30 offers to host Cryptome in several countries and will accept most to disperse the collection as protection against future shutdowns. From: Justin Aldridge Strange goings on.
"Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism." ~George Washington
#2. To: aristeides, Neil McIver, Critter, Tauzero, mirage, randge, BTP Holdings, Zipporah, christine, Dakmar, SKYDRIFTER, Brian S, Zoroaster (#0)
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Young -- a 72-year-old architect in New York
#3. To: Neil McIver, Critter, Tauzero, mirage, randge, BTP Holdings, Zipporah, christine, Dakmar, SKYDRIFTER, Brian S, Zoroaster (#2)
#4. To: robin (#3)
Temporarily disabled due to abuse by rogue bots.
#5. To: robin (#3)
#6. To: aristeides, christine, robin, honway, dakmar, diana, all (#4)
Temporarily disabled due to abuse by rogue bots.
#7. To: SKYDRIFTER (#6)
Shades of krystalnacht!
#8. To: aristeides (#1)
#9. To: Itisa1mosttoolate, aristeides (#8)
#10. To: Itisa1mosttoolate (#8)
A, you hit the nail on the head. The Deepwater expose, and attempts to conceal it, point to the prime suspect for the shutdown. Verio would not buckle for anything less, based on past practice, and are probably hoping the shutdown would be seen for what it really is: they've been ordered not to disclose anything which would call attention to the Deepwater material and its threat to national security.
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Subject: Re: [IDS-9159122] http://[cryptome.org] - Other - Explain Below
To: >http://jya[at]pipeline.com
Date:Mon, 30 Apr 2007 15:38:08 -0400 (EDT)
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