Wednesday, 2. May 2007
Topic: War and Peace - on May 2, 2007 at 11:43:00 AM CEST
Who Killed 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, 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.
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