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John Young is a New York based architect, but is better known as the controversial Internet activist who created and maintains Cryptome.org. Cryptome is a web-based mirror of government information, memorandums, policy documents, and records. Image File history File links Broom_icon. ... Cryptome is a controversial website hosted in the United States by John Young, that functions as a repository for information about freedom of speech, cryptography, and surveillance. ...
In his capacity as administrator of Cryptome, Young has courted controversy, receiving visits from the FBI[1], subpoenas[2], Slashdot interviews[3], and an attack in Reader's Digest[4]. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is a federal criminal investigative, intelligence agency, and the primary investigative arm of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ). ... Slashdot, often abbreviated as /.[1], is a science, science fiction, and technology-related news website owned by SourceForge, Inc. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...
Public opinion on Cryptome is varied. Stewart Baker, former general counsel for the National Security Agency, opined to Reader's Digest: "If the material is leaked to you, you can probably publish that ... unfortunately, it's not illegal to be a jerk."[5] Stewart Abercrombie Baker (born July 17, 1947) is the Assistant Secretary for Policy for the United States Department of Homeland Security (as of 2006). ... “NSA†redirects here. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...
Cryptome is a controversial website, hosted in the United States by JohnYoung, that functions as a repository for information about freedom of speech, cryptography, and surveillance.
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.
Young reported being visited by two FBI agents from a counter-terrorism office and described having a casual discussion with the agents [4].
Young has a clear political agenda in creating the eyeballing map montages, to show people the places that the powerful do not want the rest of the community to know about or think about.
Young has received no official comment or complaint about the nature of his mapping project thus far, but notes that eyeballing receives "quite an impressive number of downloads from official websites, in particular from the military".
Part of the wider of agenda of Young'sCryptome project is to try to expose the actual workings of these virtual systems of security and intelligence through publishing documentary evidence on their structures, internal policies, statistics, budget details and other banal, but revealing, administrative materials of the various organisations involved.
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