Remembering John Young, Co-founder of Web Archive Cryptome (theregister.com) 22
New submitter zuki shares an obit published at The Register: John Young, the co-founder of the legendary internet archive Cryptome, died at the age of 89 on March 28. The Register talked to friends and peers who gave tribute to a bright, pugnacious man who was devoted to the public's right to know.
Before WikiLeaks, OpenLeaks, BayFiles, or Transparency Toolkit, there was Cryptome - an open internet archive that inspired them all, helped ignite the first digital crypto war, and even gave Julian Assange his start before falling out with him on principle.
Before WikiLeaks, OpenLeaks, BayFiles, or Transparency Toolkit, there was Cryptome - an open internet archive that inspired them all, helped ignite the first digital crypto war, and even gave Julian Assange his start before falling out with him on principle.
Hopefully new hands will take up the heavy load (Score:3)
of defending the public's domain against the corruption of copyright and continue the fight against classism. We desperately need people to ensure the rights we fought for are not swept away by the selfish, insatiable and irresponsible interests of the upper classes; as there's so little real freedom left. At this rate we and our culture will be owned and controlled by elites; welcome to our plutocracy.
upper class is not your enemy unless you make them (Score:2, Informative)
Re: upper class is not your enemy unless you make (Score:4, Funny)
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If you don't like the arrangement you are free to get together with others in your "class" and create your own communist paradise.
We've kind of run out of decent real estate on Earth for such a scheme. Until we discover another habitable planet and work around the laws of physics preventing FTL travel, your idea is mostly infeasible.
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No, people are not free to do anything like that, oh, and please take your red-baiting and get lost troll, besides, you don't even understand the term you're slandering people with, communism is not despotism. Communism is like the Hutterites, the Kibbutz movement or the hippies. Sadly what pseudo-conservative people often call ‘communism’ is really despotism, as in the USSR, North Korea and China. These are not communistic, they are ‘command economies’ run by ‘tyrants’ w
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Being a dick is independent to how much money you have.
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You should like the rich,
Yum, boots!
they pay far more taxes in absolute terms (and usually as a percentage of earnings),
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they invest and take risks.
With the profits of OUR LABOR, you bootlicking cuck.
Re: Mixed feelings about this (Score:2)
Sure, blame everyone except the real culprits, then wonder why society doesn't work anymore.
Blame Russia while you're at it, doofus.
Hint for the intellectually bereft: it's your fault, not the whistleblower, not the guy 6000 miles away.
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Assange has always acted ultra right wing and anti-west. He's a piece of shit.
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Was it not apparent the first time he opened his mouth? If there's every been a "This is what a sociopath looks like" person, it's Assange.
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Assange always timed for maximum political impact no matter who was doing the evil.
Did you complain when he released Collateral Murder showing the war crimes under George W. Bush?
Not the Astronaut (Score:3)
who died in 2018.
Cryptome was cool and all (Score:2)
Cryptome was like, "Oh, this is a little window into some truly boring stuff!"
I maybe went there 20 times, just hoping for something interesting. I stopped thinking about it probably 15 years ago. Cool idea. Boring reality.
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Wikileaks was honestly like that too. A dump of diplomatic cables is going to be 95% "Need another 5 boxes of A4 copying paper.".
Thats the reality the spooky "deep state" is actually mostly just public servnants doing their normal job.
What DID astound me about Cryptome and its counterpart Cartome was how often there WOULD be fascinating dumps of the "CIA defence plans for " variety.
This extremely paranoid man was doing "wikileaks" back when Assange was in nappies, just with none of the fanfare and press hij
Legend (Score:4, Insightful)
I didn't realize he was born in the 1930's.
Older than a Boomer, he didn't need to be a "digital native" to understand how the Internet should work.
Truly a legend in Internet History. RIP.