Journal chill's Journal: Cryptome Taken Offline by Microsoft DMCA Filing 2
As of about 2:00 p.m. EST today, Cryptome.org has been taken offline by their host and Registrar, Network Solutions. It seems Microsoft filed a copyright-infringement DMCA takedown notice relating to a Microsoftâ(TM)s âoeGlobal Criminal Compliance Handbook,â a comprehensive, 22-page guide running down the surveillance services Microsoft will perform for law enforcement agencies on its various online platforms. Network Solutions took the extra step of locking the domain to prevent a transfer.
Geekosystems has the full story, and a mirror of Cryptome.org -- minus the offending document -- is up and running.
On the mirror page you can find a PayPal donation link. $25 will get you two DVDs containing everything Cryptome.org had and then some, from June 1996 until February 2010, mailed anywhere in the world. About 54,000 files in 8 Gb of data.
Wow that guide is messy (Score:1)
Seriously, what a mess. Portions of it even read like advertisments for the respective web services.
"Violations of customer's trust" seems a bit excessive though, as unlike the cellular industry, MS makes it rather explicit that in the very least a subpoena is necessary to get information out of them.
The sparseness of the logging is also rather refreshing. As does the entire "once email is deleted it can no longer be handed over" aspect of things.
I especially like the note on the last page about "Unopened
Re: (Score:2)
Yeah, I agree. The two things I look for in documents like this are "we aren't handing anything over without a warrant, court order or subpoena" and archive length. I *know* they're going to give it up if the law demands, and I don't have any issue with that. As long as they aren't doing it as "favors" or without proper legal oversight.
The other one is how long are they keeping my e-mails for, etc. I'd like to know.
Cryptome has documents for almost all the telcos, major ISPs, major online services, etc.