{"id":707,"date":"2007-04-30T21:41:22","date_gmt":"2007-04-30T21:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=707"},"modified":"2010-02-25T10:37:27","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T10:37:27","slug":"cryptome-shut-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=707","title":{"rendered":"Cryptome shut down!"},"content":{"rendered":"

UPDATED FOR THE 2010 ATTACK!<\/strong>
\nCrytome<\/a>, 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:<\/p>\n

[By certified mail, received 28 April 2007.]
\nVERIO
\nAn NTT Communications Company<\/p>\n

Writer’s Direct Numbers
\no) 303-645-1912
\nfax) 303-708-2445
\ne-mail: dthompson[at]verio.net<\/p>\n

April 20, 2007<\/p>\n

Via Certified Mail<\/p>\n

John Young
\nCryptome Org
\n251 West 89th Street
\nNew Yor, NY 10024<\/p>\n

RE: www.cryptome.org<\/p>\n

Dear Mr. Young,<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Sincerely,<\/p>\n

VERIO INC.
\nan NTT Communications Company<\/p>\n

[Signed]<\/p>\n

Danna Thompson
\nLegal Department<\/p>\n

Verio Inc.
\n8005 S. Chester Street
\nSuite 200
\nEnglewood, CO 80112
\nwww.verio.com<\/p>\n

————————————————————
\nCryptome note:<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Every few months our Verio service rep, Warren Gleicher, Senior Account Manager, (wgleicher[at]verio.net) writes to see if service is satifactory.<\/p>\n

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.
\n————————————————————<\/p>\n

Sample legal notice[s] from Verio:<\/p>\n

Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 13:06:12 -0400\r\nTo: cchunt[at]hway.net\r\nFrom: John Young \r\nSubject: British Request to Remove Document\r\n\r\nMr. Charles Hunt\r\nAcceptable Use Department\r\nVerio\r\nTel: 561-912-2536\r\n\r\nDear Mr. Hunt\r\n\r\nIt was a pleasure to speak with you today about the\r\ndocument on my site Cryptome:\r\n\r\n http:\/\/cryptome.org\/mi5-lis-uk.htm.\r\n\r\nYour courtesy and supportive remarks are very much\r\nappreciated.\r\n\r\nThis will confirm that I decline to remove the document\r\nin response to your forwarded request from a \"British\r\nIntelligence Agency\" made to Verio's legal department.\r\n\r\nI do not believe that posting the document is illegal\r\nunder US law and does not violate Verio's terms of\r\nacceptable use. And that an informal request, not a\r\ncourt order, is insufficient reason to remove the\r\ndocument which provides significant public information.\r\n\r\nI told you that I knew of three other instances of\r\nBritish intelligence documents being posted on the\r\nInternet, and that they had been removed by the ISPs\r\n(Yahoo and Geocities) without public explanation of\r\nwhy or what justification was given for their removal.\r\nThus, I would like to obtain information on the British\r\nrequest to Verio in or to publish the information on Cryptome.\r\n\r\nIn response to your invitation to send a letter for\r\nforwarding to Verio's legal department I would very\r\nmuch appreciate learning, in writing if possible:\r\n\r\n1. Who made the request: person, title and agency.\r\n2. When it was made.\r\n3. To whom it was made.\r\n4. Its format, whether verbal or written or both.\r\n5. A description of the request or a copy if it was written.\r\n6. Other means discussed between British Intelligence and\r\nVerio to remove the document.\r\n7. How the request relates to Verio's acceptable use policy.\r\n\r\nVerio's response and this message will be published on\r\nCryptome to provide information on how British Intelligence\r\nconducts its affairs in the US.\r\n\r\nRegards,\r\n\r\nJohn Young\r\nCryptome\r\n251 West 89th Street\r\nNew York, NY 10024\r\n212-873-8700<\/pre>\n
That is how REAL PEOPLE respond to threats, in case you didn’t know.<\/p>\n
I am sure that Mr. Young is being flooded with offers of free space. All he has to do is take all<\/strong> the offers<\/em>, upload Cryptome to each of them, and then keep them all identical with rsync.<\/p>\n
Then, like TPB he will be impossible to shut down.<\/p>\n
Shutting down Cryptome is like burning books. The BASTARDS who have ordered this are the lowest ‘humans’ on the scale.<\/p>\n
FAST FORWARD<\/b><\/u><\/p>\n
its 2010 and the completely evil Micro$oft has managed to get Network Solutions to deregister cryptome.org, effectively making it invisible.<\/p>\n
Here it the document that Micro$oft does not want you to read<\/a>. I suggest you download, it, read it and then seed it.<\/p>\n
Not only is Micro$oft unable to innovate, its worthless products destroy your work, track you, allow the totalitarian governments of the world back door access to your private documents… the list goes on and on. If you do not already shun them, you should shun them completely. If you have money, buy Apple, who are less evil. If you want to keep your equipment, switch to Ubuntu<\/a>; it is a superior and moral operating system. You have no excuse, other than your own lazyness, to keep putting up with and financially supporting the evil of this bad company.<\/p>\n
Now M$ 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<\/a>. Now that they have tried to remove this document, the number of people reading it and storing it will increase by orders of magnitude.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
At the time of this update Thu Feb 25 10:34:26 GMT 2010, whois says the following of Cryptome.org:<\/p>\n
Domain ID:D7496146-LROR\r\nDomain Name:CRYPTOME.ORG\r\nCreated On:25-Jun-1999 14:58:29 UTC\r\nLast Updated On:24-Feb-2010 18:47:18 UTC\r\nExpiration Date:25-Jun-2011 14:58:29 UTC\r\nSponsoring Registrar:Network Solutions LLC (R63-LROR)\r\nStatus:CLIENT DELETE PROHIBITED\r\nStatus:CLIENT HOLD\r\nStatus:CLIENT TRANSFER PROHIBITED\r\nStatus:CLIENT UPDATE PROHIBITED\r\nRegistrant ID:24163306-NSI\r\nRegistrant Name:Cryptome\r\nRegistrant Organization:Cryptome\r\nRegistrant Street1:251 West 89th Street\r\nRegistrant Street2:\r\nRegistrant Street3:\r\nRegistrant City:New York\r\nRegistrant State\/Province:NY\r\nRegistrant Postal Code:10024\r\nRegistrant Country:US\r\nRegistrant Phone:+1.9999999999\r\nRegistrant Phone Ext.:\r\nRegistrant FAX:+1.9999999999\r\nRegistrant FAX Ext.:\r\nRegistrant Email:jya@PIPELINE.COM\r\nAdmin ID:24163306-NSI\r\nAdmin Name:Cryptome\r\nAdmin Organization:Cryptome\r\nAdmin Street1:251 West 89th Street\r\nAdmin Street2:\r\nAdmin Street3:\r\nAdmin City:New York\r\nAdmin State\/Province:NY\r\nAdmin Postal Code:10024\r\nAdmin Country:US\r\nAdmin Phone:+1.9999999999\r\nAdmin Phone Ext.:\r\nAdmin FAX:+1.9999999999\r\nAdmin FAX Ext.:\r\nAdmin Email:jya@PIPELINE.COM\r\nTech ID:24163306-NSI\r\nTech Name:Cryptome\r\nTech Organization:Cryptome\r\nTech Street1:251 West 89th Street\r\nTech Street2:\r\nTech Street3:\r\nTech City:New York\r\nTech State\/Province:NY\r\nTech Postal Code:10024\r\nTech Country:US\r\nTech Phone:+1.9999999999\r\nTech Phone Ext.:\r\nTech FAX:+1.9999999999\r\nTech FAX Ext.:\r\nTech Email:jya@PIPELINE.COM\r\nName Server:NS47.WORLDNIC.COM\r\nName Server:NS48.WORLDNIC.COM\r\nName Server: \r\nName Server: \r\nName Server: \r\nName Server: \r\nName Server: \r\nName Server: \r\nName Server: \r\nName Server: \r\nName Server: \r\nName Server: \r\nName Server: \r\nDNSSEC:Unsigned\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
UPDATED 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,16,29,11,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}