Cryptome

Cryptome or Cryptome.org is a website of the 1930 -born American activist John Young, who uses it primarily for unrestricted freedom of expression and freedom of information. To achieve this goal, especially documents and photos will be posted on the Web server standing in the U.S. that are subject to confidentiality various governments of the world. The documents are deleted only if it is ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction of the United States. In addition, however, numerous documents from topics such as freedom of expression, cryptology and monitoring are published. Since Cryptome could not be reached again and again in the past, the side on numerous other web servers is mirrored.

Cryptome was the first web site of the type of revelation Platform, launched in 1994, when Young member of the Cypher punk movement was composed of members online celebrities were like John Gilmore, one of the first employees at Sun Microsystems, Timothy C. May, a former leading researcher at Intel, Philip Zimmermann, the creator of Pretty Good Privacy encryption software existed for emails and Julian Assange. They sat down to ensure that, in that for the first time in the history of the electronic age had private people access to encryption software, which should be a communication possible without the authorities could read along. Initially Cryptome collaborated with Julian Assange.

According gulli.com Cryptome was terminated in 2007 by his provider, 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 on secret government installations as well as pictures of U.S. 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" by Microsoft, which highlights how Microsoft is cooperating with law enforcement authorities. Microsoft Thereupon block the site.
• On 31 March 2011 Cryptome revealed the previously undisclosed high-resolution images of a U.S. drone of the damaged nuclear power plant Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant - they show for the first time the full extent of the destruction.