Cryptome

Cryptome is the grand-daddy of anti-authoritarian whistleblower, leak, publish-and-be-damned sites. It was a major source of both content and inspiration when setting up the Wikispooks site. It is highly recommended when researching anything concerning Wikispooks articles.

 http://cryptome.org/   
Started: 1996
Founders: John Young, Deborah Natsios

Owner: John Young
In its own words:
"Cryptome welcomes documents for publication that are prohibited by governments worldwide, in particular material on freedom of expression, privacy, cryptology, dual-use technologies, national security, intelligence, and secret governance — open, secret and classified documents — but not limited to those. Documents are removed from this site only by order served directly by a US court having jurisdiction. No court order has ever been served; any order served will be published here — or elsewhere if gagged by order. Bluffs will be published if comical but otherwise ignored."
Constitutes: Leak site
 

Sub-Page

Page Name	Size	Description
Cryptome/Principled Leaks, Deep State Agency - or a bit of both?	10,661	A critical discussion about John Young and Cryptome, stemming from discussions between a Wikispooks editor and Trowbridge H Ford.

“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) 

Closing

In August 20, 2023, Cryptome announced it is closing until Julian Assange is freed.

 

Related Documents

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:Cryptome’s searing critique of Snowden Inc	article	13 February 2016	Tim Shorrock	Commentary on an interview with John Young and his wife Deborah Natsios by Pit Schultz of reboot.fm at the 'Transmedia 2016' event in Berlin on 6 February 2016
Document:John Young Interview	interview	15 November 2013	Michael Morisy
Document:Nothing too Threatening to Publish	article	10 July 2011	John Young
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.
Document:Your Man in the Public Gallery: Assange Hearing Day 14	blog post	22 September 2020	Craig Murray	Following defence witness Professor Grothoff, the only further evidence heard was the reading by Edward Fitzgerald QC of the gist of a statement from Cassandra Fairbanks. I did not hear most of this because, having adjourned to 4.30pm, the court re-adjourned earlier than advertised, while Julian’s dad John Shipton, the musician M.I.A. and I were away having a coffee.
Document:Your Man in the Public Gallery: Assange Hearing Day 17	blog post	25 September 2020	Craig Murray	I am going to write to Judge Baraitser applying for a copy of the transcript of Lewis cross-examining Professor Kopelman on the razor blade, with a view to reporting James Lewis QC to the Bar Council. I do wonder whether the General Medical Council might not have reason to consider the practice of Dr Rachel Daly in this case.

 

Documents sourced from Cryptome

Title	Type	Subject(s)	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:Anonymous Surpasses Wikileaks	article	Wikileaks 'Anonymous' Barrett Brown HBGary	17 February 2011	John Young
Document:Conficker, Cyber Emergency, and the Internet Kill Switch	article	Conficker PCNAA	11 July 2010	Kai Tischen
Document:Coordinating Regime Change in Iran and Venezuela	diplomatic communication	Iran Venezuela Coup d'état Nicolás Maduro PDVSA Bolivarian Missions Luisa Ortega Simón Bolívar	25 August 2010	Trowbridge Ford	Iran and Venezuela, prime candidates for regime change
Document:Electronic Espionage - A Memoir	interview	National Security Agency Cold War	August 1972	Perry Fellwock
Document:Getting Access to the Secrets of the Osama Bin Ladin Kill	webpage	Osama bin Laden Robert Schmidle	3 August 2011
Document:Nothing too Threatening to Publish	article	Cryptome	10 July 2011	John Young
Document:Omidyar-Greenwald-Rosen	article	Edward Snowden Affair Pierre Omidyar Glenn Greenwald	15 December 2013	Anonymous
Document:On Her Majesty's Secret Service - Uncensored	webpage	MI6 Richard Tomlinson	1 April 2001	Gordon Logan
Document:Review of "Freedom and the Future of the Internet"	book review	Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet	30 November 2012	John Young
Document:Snowden Civil War	article	Surveillance State Edward Snowden Affair	5 December 2013	John Young	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:The Killing Years in Ireland	article	Margaret Walshaw Northern Ireland 'Stakeknife'	3 February 2001	'Maharajah'
Document:The MI6 Bombings in Saudi Arabia	article	2000 Saudi Bombings	1 March 2003	Gordon Logan	An alternative account of the 2000/1 bombings in Saudi Arabia for which the Saudis convicted a group of UK ex-patriots, sentenced them to death and later granted amnesty and returned them to the UK. This IS indeed a murky business and, whilst this account may seem far-fetched, it is probably closer to the truth than the official version
Document:The Markov and Maxwell Murders	webpage	MI6 Georgi Markov Robert Maxwell	20 August 2011	Gordon Logan
Document:The linked deaths of Robert Maxwell and Georgi Markov	webpage	Georgi Markov Robert Maxwell	9 December 2000	Gordon Logan
Document:The linked deaths of Robert Maxwell and Georgi Markov - 2	webpage	Georgi Markov Robert Maxwell	9 December 2000	Gordon Logan
Document:UK Library Spies	email	Surveillance State	7 January 2011	John Young Unknown Cryptome reader
Document:Understanding the Moscow Coup of August 1991	webpage	1991 Moscow Coup attempt	24 August 2001	Gordon Logan
Document:Why the CIA went astray over Abu Omar	article	Abu Omar	6 July 2005	Trowbridge Ford
File:BillCaseyHoneyPot.pdf	article		23 February 2015	'BillCaseyHoneyPot'
File:British Bases in Cyprus and Signals Intelligence.pdf	report	Cyprus SIGINT ECHELON	24 January 2012	Giorgos Georgiou
File:FIFA-indictment.pdf	indictment	FIFA	20 May 2015	FBI	US District Court of New York indictment against 14 senior officials of the Swiss-based world football governing body FIFA
File:Full-Disclosure.pdf	report	Mass surveillance	4 December 2013	The Adversaries	If your UK internet service and equipment provider is BT (and probably any other of the large UK ISP's), then it is a trivial matter for GCHQ and its agencies to route a duplicate of all your traffic to a spook server, access your home computer network, install malware and retrieve any passwords and encryption keys stored on it. You have been warned.
File:Postol-debunks-kaszeta.pdf	report	Syrian Chemical Weapons Attack Dan Kaszeta	14 July 2014	Theodore Postol	Expose of fraudulent claims made by Dan Kaszeta, the West's favourite source for demonising information on President Assad's alleged guilt for the Ghouta chemical weapons attack of August 2013
File:Timothy-felix-miltz.pdf	article	Aaron Swartz	27 February 2015	'BillCaseyHoneyPot'
File:US-biowarfare in Korea.pdf	report	Korean War Biological weapon	September 1952	Joseph Needham	Report of investigations into the use of biological weapons by the US military during the Korean war of 1951-53
File:Vw-ramdoubler.pdf	Wikispooks Page	Corruption Volkswagen	5 September 2015

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