Apparently John Young, founder of Cryptome, has died. Founded in 1996, Cryptome was the original site that courageously published leaks and other information that the powers that be wanted suppressed.
cryptome.org
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptome
cryptome.org
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptome
@emma.best I can’t remember how to message you here. Alas, John Young passed away at age 89 on 28 March 2025. He was a man of deep aesthetics and conscience. RIP.
April 11, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Apparently John Young, founder of Cryptome, has died. Founded in 1996, Cryptome was the original site that courageously published leaks and other information that the powers that be wanted suppressed.
cryptome.org
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptome
cryptome.org
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptome
I've just been told that John Young of Cryptome.org passed away last week.
#Cryptome was foundational, and a predecessor to organizations like @ddosecrets.com and #Wikileaks.
RIP, John.
#Cryptome was foundational, and a predecessor to organizations like @ddosecrets.com and #Wikileaks.
RIP, John.
April 10, 2025 at 11:31 PM
I've just been told that John Young of Cryptome.org passed away last week.
#Cryptome was foundational, and a predecessor to organizations like @ddosecrets.com and #Wikileaks.
RIP, John.
#Cryptome was foundational, and a predecessor to organizations like @ddosecrets.com and #Wikileaks.
RIP, John.
“Cryptome actually published the embarrassing US diplomatic cables that landed Assange in hot water the day before WikiLeaks…”
John Young, co-founder of web archive Cryptome, dies at 89
Obituary: The original leak site that never sold out, never surrendered
www.theregister.com
May 24, 2025 at 3:08 PM
“Cryptome actually published the embarrassing US diplomatic cables that landed Assange in hot water the day before WikiLeaks…”
John Young, founder of Cryptome - an early model for WikiLeaks - has died. The Register has a good obituary. I had a run-in with John in 2010 after Cryptome got hacked and I wrote about it for Wired. He was often difficult to deal with but no one could doubt his dedication to the transparency cause
John Young, co-founder of web archive Cryptome, dies at 89
Obituary: The original leak site that never sold out, never surrendered
www.theregister.com
May 25, 2025 at 11:36 AM
John Young, founder of Cryptome - an early model for WikiLeaks - has died. The Register has a good obituary. I had a run-in with John in 2010 after Cryptome got hacked and I wrote about it for Wired. He was often difficult to deal with but no one could doubt his dedication to the transparency cause
Reposting my favorite interaction between Wikileaks and Cryptome.
May 17, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Reposting my favorite interaction between Wikileaks and Cryptome.
May 18, 2025 at 12:53 AM
"It took an architect to bring those skills to bear to create an information repository that was as organized and available and seamless to use as Cryptome was," EFF’s Cindy Cohn told @theregister.com in praise of the late John Young.
John Young, co-founder of web archive Cryptome, dies at 89
Obituary: The original leak site that never sold out, never surrendered
www.theregister.com
May 27, 2025 at 5:46 PM
"It took an architect to bring those skills to bear to create an information repository that was as organized and available and seamless to use as Cryptome was," EFF’s Cindy Cohn told @theregister.com in praise of the late John Young.
John Young / cryptome.org used to release raw dumps of leaked documents. Looks like they still do
Cryptome
cryptome.org
February 16, 2026 at 3:04 AM
John Young / cryptome.org used to release raw dumps of leaked documents. Looks like they still do
“Cryptome was a critical piece of showing what kind of transparency the internet could bring,” EFF’s Cindy Cohn told @nytimes.com for the obituary of John L. Young, a pioneer online librarian of secrets who died in March at 89.
John L. Young, 89, Dies; Pioneered Posting Classified Documents Online
His site, Cryptome, was a precursor to WikiLeaks, and in some ways bolder in its no-holds-barred approach to exposing government secrets.
www.nytimes.com
June 11, 2025 at 6:28 PM
“Cryptome was a critical piece of showing what kind of transparency the internet could bring,” EFF’s Cindy Cohn told @nytimes.com for the obituary of John L. Young, a pioneer online librarian of secrets who died in March at 89.
In memoriam: Cryptome co-founder John L. Young, who died March 28 at age 89 in New York City, was one of the early, under-recognized heroes of the digital age.
In Memoriam: John L. Young, Cryptome Co-Founder
John L. Young, who died March 28 at age 89 in New York City, was among the first people to see the need for an online library of official secrets, a place where the public could find out things that g...
www.eff.org
May 15, 2025 at 9:32 PM
In memoriam: Cryptome co-founder John L. Young, who died March 28 at age 89 in New York City, was one of the early, under-recognized heroes of the digital age.
„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.“
www.theregister.com/2025/05/24/j...
www.theregister.com/2025/05/24/j...
John Young, co-founder of web archive Cryptome, dies at 89
Obituary: The original leak site that never sold out, never surrendered
www.theregister.com
May 25, 2025 at 10:20 AM
„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.“
www.theregister.com/2025/05/24/j...
www.theregister.com/2025/05/24/j...
Remembering John Young, co-founder of web archive Cryptome
Remembering John Young, co-founder of web archive Cryptome
The original leak site that never sold out, never surrendered
Obituary 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.…
dlvr.it
May 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Remembering John Young, co-founder of web archive Cryptome
Before WikiLeaks, there was Cryptome – whose extraordinarily truculent founder has died, aged 89. www.theregister.com/2025/05/24/j...
John Young, co-founder of web archive Cryptome, dies at 89
Obituary: The original leak site that never sold out, never surrendered
www.theregister.com
May 25, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Before WikiLeaks, there was Cryptome – whose extraordinarily truculent founder has died, aged 89. www.theregister.com/2025/05/24/j...
He wanted to but Cryptome had it all archived.
June 25, 2024 at 11:22 AM
He wanted to but Cryptome had it all archived.
Can anyone corroborate this?
Maybe someone, ideally not psuedonymous, could take a photo of such a Starlink transceiver atop a General Services Admin or other rooftop patio? Figure out a model number or FCC ID of the device or something?
(Ping @electrospaces.bsky.social @cryptome-org.bsky.social)
Maybe someone, ideally not psuedonymous, could take a photo of such a Starlink transceiver atop a General Services Admin or other rooftop patio? Figure out a model number or FCC ID of the device or something?
(Ping @electrospaces.bsky.social @cryptome-org.bsky.social)
Every day, it just gets worse. Now Elon’s staff is moving to hide their actions — by secretly using Starlink.
April 17, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Can anyone corroborate this?
Maybe someone, ideally not psuedonymous, could take a photo of such a Starlink transceiver atop a General Services Admin or other rooftop patio? Figure out a model number or FCC ID of the device or something?
(Ping @electrospaces.bsky.social @cryptome-org.bsky.social)
Maybe someone, ideally not psuedonymous, could take a photo of such a Starlink transceiver atop a General Services Admin or other rooftop patio? Figure out a model number or FCC ID of the device or something?
(Ping @electrospaces.bsky.social @cryptome-org.bsky.social)
Sad to learn of the death of John Young, creator of Cryptome, cypherpunk, shit-stirrer, progenitor of the transparency movement that included WikiLeaks and Snowden. I profiled him in my book, This Machine Kills Secrets, which ended with a comment he wrote in 2012 about Assange and his early work:
May 30, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Sad to learn of the death of John Young, creator of Cryptome, cypherpunk, shit-stirrer, progenitor of the transparency movement that included WikiLeaks and Snowden. I profiled him in my book, This Machine Kills Secrets, which ended with a comment he wrote in 2012 about Assange and his early work:
This is really sad news. John Young was a truly radical person and someone who was incredibly supportive and helpful to anyone who wanted to dig into the world of state secrets. I owe a great deal to Cryptome.
„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.“
www.theregister.com/2025/05/24/j...
www.theregister.com/2025/05/24/j...
John Young, co-founder of web archive Cryptome, dies at 89
Obituary: The original leak site that never sold out, never surrendered
www.theregister.com
May 25, 2025 at 10:56 AM
This is really sad news. John Young was a truly radical person and someone who was incredibly supportive and helpful to anyone who wanted to dig into the world of state secrets. I owe a great deal to Cryptome.
Cryptome GoFunding Campaign, July 21, 2024
gofund.me/7f626602
Cryptome Archive
https:/cryptome.org/donations.htm
Thanks very much for support.
gofund.me/7f626602
Cryptome Archive
https:/cryptome.org/donations.htm
Thanks very much for support.
Donate to Support Cryptome Mission, organized by John Young
I am John Young, co-founder with Deborah Natsios of Cryptome in 1996, an online free public librar… John Young needs your support for Support Cryptome Mission
gofund.me
November 17, 2024 at 12:08 PM
Cryptome GoFunding Campaign, July 21, 2024
gofund.me/7f626602
Cryptome Archive
https:/cryptome.org/donations.htm
Thanks very much for support.
gofund.me/7f626602
Cryptome Archive
https:/cryptome.org/donations.htm
Thanks very much for support.
I wanted to see when I started talking about the Navy Utilities Project, and the answer is by 2017 at least.
I started getting suspicious when I did a crayon metro map in 2009. Found an article on Cryptome and the Big Dig happened shortly thereafter. x.com/jg_bollard/s...
I started getting suspicious when I did a crayon metro map in 2009. Found an article on Cryptome and the Big Dig happened shortly thereafter. x.com/jg_bollard/s...
August 24, 2026 at 3:21 PM
I wanted to see when I started talking about the Navy Utilities Project, and the answer is by 2017 at least.
I started getting suspicious when I did a crayon metro map in 2009. Found an article on Cryptome and the Big Dig happened shortly thereafter. x.com/jg_bollard/s...
I started getting suspicious when I did a crayon metro map in 2009. Found an article on Cryptome and the Big Dig happened shortly thereafter. x.com/jg_bollard/s...
Yeah, right, they are moderating 14 year old posts that link to Cryptome.org
December 3, 2024 at 4:06 PM
Yeah, right, they are moderating 14 year old posts that link to Cryptome.org
It would be wonderful if they accidentally sent it to cryptome so it can be hosted alongside the Python and Javascript implementations. I wonder who sent them over.
cryptome.org
cryptome.org
January 5, 2025 at 11:55 PM
It would be wonderful if they accidentally sent it to cryptome so it can be hosted alongside the Python and Javascript implementations. I wonder who sent them over.
cryptome.org
cryptome.org
In maart overleed op 89-jarige leeftijd John Young, mede-oprichter van de roemruchte website #Cryptome, waar sinds 1996 talloze geheime en gelekte documenten op verschenen:
www.dutchitchannel.nl/news/638628/...
www.dutchitchannel.nl/news/638628/...
Internetpionier John Young, mede-oprichter van Cryptome, overleden
Internetpionier John Young, mede-oprichter van Cryptome, overleden
www.dutchitchannel.nl
May 31, 2025 at 8:23 AM
In maart overleed op 89-jarige leeftijd John Young, mede-oprichter van de roemruchte website #Cryptome, waar sinds 1996 talloze geheime en gelekte documenten op verschenen:
www.dutchitchannel.nl/news/638628/...
www.dutchitchannel.nl/news/638628/...