24-02-2010, 02:19 PM
David Guyatt Wrote:Cryptome could respond by placing the document on another ISP based in eastern Europe and linking to it .....David
Not sure how much you know about John Young but he is one canny operator. He's been in the business of publishing anything and everything sent to him for a long time now and his site says it still maintains a 100% record against legal and take-down threats.
He's something or a hero of mine - not to say role model (at my age!!**??) too.
Here's his response to a question about Cryptome's privacy policy. It's a classic and right on the button (note my bold/italics).
Quote:A asks: What is Cryptome's privacy policy, is user data collected? Answer: No user data is collected by Cryptome. Logs are deleted several times a day. But read on.
This is not to promise there is nobody else doing the collecting. We periodically warn that covert snooping by ISPs, by network system operators, by spies public and private, by the host of predators of the vast Web, is rampant.
Log retention is endemic, on grounds it needed for system administration. Hah, just like the feds and the corps claim that is why they need to watch citizens and employees.
As you know there are many, many ways to snoop on traffic, so much that Cryptome asserts there is no trustworthy privacy policy, not for Cryptome, not for anybody else.
To be sure, if privacy policy means just enough privacy to keep users coming into the spider's web, then okay, that is the policy used by government's to assure the citizenry it acts in the public interest. As employers act in the interest of their employees, as corporations act in the interest of their stockholders, as religious and educational institutions and professionals act in the interest of their dutiful fee-payers.
Those who promise the most protection are out to skin you alive, those who promise the most privacy are selling your most private possessions.
Cryptome is not trustworthy, and lies. It's a free site, what else could it be but up to but no good?
Peter Presland
".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'[size=12][size=12]
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'[size=12][size=12]
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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