John Young

John Young
Born	1935
Spouse	Deborah Natsios
Founder/Owner of	Cryptome
Interests	• Tor • leaks • “National security” • CIA

John Young was born in 1935 and is the founder of Cryptome, which he established with his wife Deborah Natsios in 1996.

“Well, conspiracy theory was invented by the spies. No one does more more conspiracy theory than spies do. The national security apparatus cooks up conspiracy theories all the time, but they put out this story that is just conspiracy theory, as though it's contemptible. But in fact, they're the ones who cook up the threats that are far more complex and bizarre than anything we ordinary people could ever cook up and they get billions to fight it. So they're almost diabolically conspiratorially. So let me call myself a sceptic and I'm willing to learn, welcome criticism. I don't mind these terms of being a dissident, a conspiracy theorist. Those are all throwaway terms. (interview with RT Jan 2, 2011)”
John Young

 

Documents by John Young

Title	Document type	Publication date	Subject(s)	Description
Document:Anonymous Surpasses Wikileaks	article	17 February 2011	Wikileaks 'Anonymous' Barrett Brown HBGary
Document:NYT and Guardian on Wikileaks	article	4 February 2011	Wikileaks The Guardian New York Times
Document:Nothing too Threatening to Publish	article	10 July 2011	Cryptome
Document:Review of "Freedom and the Future of the Internet"	book review	30 November 2012	Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet
Document:Snowden Civil War	article	5 December 2013	Surveillance State Edward Snowden Affair	A pithy and on-the-button forecast from John Young about the how the Edward Snowden affair will likely pan out: if the NSA does not yet have effective control of the Snowden leaks, then they are going to make sure that those that have not been published already (i.e. >99% of Snowden's cache) never see the light of day. This is authoritative stuff from a seasoned professional.
Document:UK Library Spies	email	7 January 2011	Surveillance State

 

Related Quotation

Page	Quote	Author	Date
Cryptome	“Cryptome raises serious questions that nobody else on the left or in the media want to talk about, including how Omidar has created a business from Snowden's cache; what exactly Snowden may have been doing while he was working for the CIA prior to his time at NSA (and what else he may have been doing at NSA itself); and why Snowden and The Intercept continue to proselytize for Tor, the anonymization tool, despite its massive funding from the U.S. government, the Pentagon and the national security state.”	Tim Shorrock	February 2016

 

Related Documents

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:Secrets and Lies	article	1 September 2007	John Cook
Document:That's Outrageous	article	1 March 2005	Michael Crowley	A Readers Digest contributor is outraged, OUTRAGED I say, that a web site like Cryptome should be 'allowed to exist'. He does not intend humour at all, he is deadly serious - which is precisely what makes the piece so funny.

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