Cryptome shut down!
April 30th, 2007UPDATED FOR THE 2010 ATTACK!
Crytome, a very old and very useful service run by John Young, has been told by its ISP that its contract is being terminated. This is a shenanigan, since his ISP was very supportive of the site up till now:
[By certified mail, received 28 April 2007.]
VERIO
An NTT Communications Company
Writer’s Direct Numbers
o) 303-645-1912
fax) 303-708-2445
e-mail: dthompson[at]verio.net
April 20, 2007
Via Certified Mail
John Young
Cryptome Org
251 West 89th Street
New Yor, NY 10024
RE: www.cryptome.org
Dear Mr. Young,
This letter is to notify you that we are terminating your service for violation of our Acceptable Use Policy, effective Friday May 4, 2007. We are providing you with two week notice to locate another service provider.
Sincerely,
VERIO INC.
an NTT Communications Company
[Signed]
Danna Thompson
Legal Department
Verio Inc.
8005 S. Chester Street
Suite 200
Englewood, CO 80112
www.verio.com
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Cryptome note:
This notice of termination is surprising for Verio has been consistently supportive of freedom of information against those who wish to suppress it. Since 1999 Cryptome has received a number of e-mailed notices from Verio’s legal department in response to complaints from a variety of parties, ranging from British intelligence to alleged copyright holders to persons angry that their vices have been exposed (see below). In every case Verio has heretofore accepted Cryptome’s explanation for publishing material, and in some cases removal of the material, and service has continued.
In this latest instance there was no notice received from Verio describing the violation of acceptable use to justify termination of service prior to receipt of the certified letter, thus no opportunity to understand or respond to the basis for termination.
It may be wondered if Verio was threatened by an undisclosable means, say by an National Security Letter or by a confidential legal document or by a novel attack not yet aired.
Every few months our Verio service rep, Warren Gleicher, Senior Account Manager, (wgleicher[at]verio.net) writes to see if service is satifactory.
Danna and Warren: Cryptome would appreciate your telling what has led to the termination for publication. Send the information anonymously if necessary to keep your jobs.
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Sample legal notice[s] from Verio:
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 13:06:12 -0400 To: cchunt[at]hway.net From: John Young Subject: British Request to Remove Document Mr. Charles Hunt Acceptable Use Department Verio Tel: 561-912-2536 Dear Mr. Hunt It was a pleasure to speak with you today about the document on my site Cryptome: http://cryptome.org/mi5-lis-uk.htm. Your courtesy and supportive remarks are very much appreciated. This will confirm that I decline to remove the document in response to your forwarded request from a "British Intelligence Agency" made to Verio's legal department. I do not believe that posting the document is illegal under US law and does not violate Verio's terms of acceptable use. And that an informal request, not a court order, is insufficient reason to remove the document which provides significant public information. I told you that I knew of three other instances of British intelligence documents being posted on the Internet, and that they had been removed by the ISPs (Yahoo and Geocities) without public explanation of why or what justification was given for their removal. Thus, I would like to obtain information on the British request to Verio in or to publish the information on Cryptome. In response to your invitation to send a letter for forwarding to Verio's legal department I would very much appreciate learning, in writing if possible: 1. Who made the request: person, title and agency. 2. When it was made. 3. To whom it was made. 4. Its format, whether verbal or written or both. 5. A description of the request or a copy if it was written. 6. Other means discussed between British Intelligence and Verio to remove the document. 7. How the request relates to Verio's acceptable use policy. Verio's response and this message will be published on Cryptome to provide information on how British Intelligence conducts its affairs in the US. Regards, John Young Cryptome 251 West 89th Street New York, NY 10024 212-873-8700
That is how REAL PEOPLE respond to threats, in case you didn’t know.
I am sure that Mr. Young is being flooded with offers of free space. All he has to do is take all the offers, upload Cryptome to each of them, and then keep them all identical with rsync.
Then, like TPB he will be impossible to shut down.
Shutting down Cryptome is like burning books. The BASTARDS who have ordered this are the lowest ‘humans’ on the scale.
FAST FORWARD
its 2010 and the completely evil Micro$oft has managed to get Network Solutions to deregister cryptome.org, effectively making it invisible.
Here it the document that Micro$oft does not want you to read. I suggest you download, it, read it and then seed it.
Not only is Micro$oft unable to innovate, its worthless products destroy your work, track you, allow the totalitarian governments of the world back door access to your private documents… the list goes on and on. If you do not already shun them, you should shun them completely. If you have money, buy Apple, who are less evil. If you want to keep your equipment, switch to Ubuntu; it is a superior and moral operating system. You have no excuse, other than your own lazyness, to keep putting up with and financially supporting the evil of this bad company.
Now M$ seems to think that they can remove other people’s websites and stop information on their nefarious acts from spreading. They did not understand the internet when it first started to become important, and now they demonstrate that they are without any clue when it comes to the modern internet, the intentions of the people who run it (you and me) and most importantly, the Striesand effect. Now that they have tried to remove this document, the number of people reading it and storing it will increase by orders of magnitude.
No one is safe whilst evil companies like M$ are able to use the violent state as their enforcing arm. There must be a consequence to this company being evil. That means you must boycott them and their products completely.
Micro$oft is evil, stupid, destructive and in this instance, on the wrong side of history. In the future, Micro$oft will replace Watt in a book about how copyright and patents were eventually destroyed.
At the time of this update Thu Feb 25 10:34:26 GMT 2010, whois says the following of Cryptome.org:
Domain ID:D7496146-LROR Domain Name:CRYPTOME.ORG Created On:25-Jun-1999 14:58:29 UTC Last Updated On:24-Feb-2010 18:47:18 UTC Expiration Date:25-Jun-2011 14:58:29 UTC Sponsoring Registrar:Network Solutions LLC (R63-LROR) Status:CLIENT DELETE PROHIBITED Status:CLIENT HOLD Status:CLIENT TRANSFER PROHIBITED Status:CLIENT UPDATE PROHIBITED Registrant ID:24163306-NSI Registrant Name:Cryptome Registrant Organization:Cryptome Registrant Street1:251 West 89th Street Registrant Street2: Registrant Street3: Registrant City:New York Registrant State/Province:NY Registrant Postal Code:10024 Registrant Country:US Registrant Phone:+1.9999999999 Registrant Phone Ext.: Registrant FAX:+1.9999999999 Registrant FAX Ext.: Registrant Email:jya@PIPELINE.COM Admin ID:24163306-NSI Admin Name:Cryptome Admin Organization:Cryptome Admin Street1:251 West 89th Street Admin Street2: Admin Street3: Admin City:New York Admin State/Province:NY Admin Postal Code:10024 Admin Country:US Admin Phone:+1.9999999999 Admin Phone Ext.: Admin FAX:+1.9999999999 Admin FAX Ext.: Admin Email:jya@PIPELINE.COM Tech ID:24163306-NSI Tech Name:Cryptome Tech Organization:Cryptome Tech Street1:251 West 89th Street Tech Street2: Tech Street3: Tech City:New York Tech State/Province:NY Tech Postal Code:10024 Tech Country:US Tech Phone:+1.9999999999 Tech Phone Ext.: Tech FAX:+1.9999999999 Tech FAX Ext.: Tech Email:jya@PIPELINE.COM Name Server:NS47.WORLDNIC.COM Name Server:NS48.WORLDNIC.COM Name Server: Name Server: Name Server: Name Server: Name Server: Name Server: Name Server: Name Server: Name Server: Name Server: Name Server: DNSSEC:Unsigned