Cryptome
| Cryptome | |
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| http://cryptome.org | |
| languages | English |
| owner | John Young, Deborah Natsios |
| Originator | John Young, Deborah Natsios |
| Published | June 1996 |
| status | active |
Cryptome or Cryptome.org is a website of the American activist John Young , born in 1930 , who is primarily committed to unrestricted freedom of expression and information . In order to achieve this goal, documents and photos are published on the web server in the USA, which are subject to the secrecy of various governments around the world. The documents will only be deleted if this is ordered by a competent court in the USA. In addition, however, numerous documents on subjects such as freedom of expression, cryptology and surveillance are published. Since Cryptome could not be reached again and again in the past, the page is mirrored on numerous other web servers .
Cryptome was the first disclosure platform type website . It started in 1994 when Young became a member of the cypherpunk movement, which consisted of online celebrities such as John Gilmore , one of the first employees at Sun Microsystems , Timothy C. May , a former senior researcher at Intel , Philip Zimmermann , the inventor of the encryption software Pretty Good Privacy for email, and Julian Assange . They worked to ensure that, for the first time in the history of the electronic age, private individuals had access to encryption software that should enable communication without the authorities being able to read. Initially, Cryptome worked with Julian Assange.
In 2006, John Young took over the registration of the domains wikileaks.org , wikileaks.cn and wikileaks.info for the then new WikiLeaks project . After a dispute with Julian Assange about the amount of donations to be collected for WikiLeaks, he got out there and since then has sharply distanced himself from WikiLeaks.
According to gulli.com , Cryptome was canceled by its provider in 2007, which led to even more attention .
Examples
- Spectacular publications included the so-called " MI6 Files ", which contained a list of names of agents of the British secret service MI6 , " The Eyeball series ", a series of publications about secret government facilities and pictures of US soldiers killed in the course of the Third Gulf War .
- In February 2010, Cryptome published the 22-page working paper "Microsoft Online Services - Global Criminal Compliance Handbook" from Microsoft , which explains how Microsoft cooperates with law enforcement agencies. Microsoft then blocked the website.
- On March 31, 2011, Cryptome showed the previously kept secret high-resolution images of a US drone of the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant - they show for the first time the full extent of the destruction.
Web links
- Cryptome ( Mirror )
- cryptomeorg.siteprotect.net alternative domain due to a suspension initiated by Microsoft
- Inventor of the digital unveiling Platform: John Young, Cryptome.org and the world of mystery , a portrait of John Young at the Berliner Gazette originally in the American Wired published
- Search function at wikileaks.org
Individual evidence
- ↑ Marcel Rosenbach , Holger Stark : Public enemy WikiLeaks. How a group of net activists challenge the most powerful nations in the world . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt et al., Munich et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-421-04518-8 , p. 55, 60 f .
- ↑ Gulli Nachrichten on December 30, 2010, English original text linked there ( Memento from January 25, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ gulli.com: Cryptome.org - Provider probably terminates under pressure from the US Coast Guard and weapons manufacturer ( Memento from January 25, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ 20 minutes online: ( online )
- ↑ High-resolution images of the wrecked Fukushima I nuclear power plant
- ↑ www.handelsblatt.com: Uncovered pictures show the extent of the reactor destruction
- ↑ Cryptome because of MS spy manual from the network (update) - gulli.com ( Memento from January 25, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )