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Subject: [ISN] Microsoft Takes Down Whistleblower Site,
From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews ! org>
Date: 2010-02-25 6:56:32
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.61.1002250056210.20763 () conundrum ! infosecnews ! org
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http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/02/microsoft-cryptome/
By Ryan Singel
Threat Level
Wired.com
February 24, 2010
Microsoft has managed to do what a roomful of secretive, three-letter
government agencies have wanted to do for years: get the whistleblowing,
government-document sharing site Cryptome shut down.
Microsoft dropped a DMCA notice alleging copyright infringement on
Cryptome's proprietor John Young on Tuesday after he posted a Microsoft
surveillance compliance document that the company gives to law
enforcement agents seeking information on Microsoft users. Young filed a
counterclaim on Wednesday - arguing he had a fair use to publishing the
document, a full day before the Thursday deadline set by his hosting
provider, Network Solutions.
Regardless, Cryptome [1] was shut down by Network Solutions and its
domain name locked on Wednesday - shuttering a site that thumbed its
nose at the government since 1996 - posting thousands of documents that
the feds would prefer never saw the light of day.
Microsoft did not return a call for comment by press time.
The 22-page document [2] (.pdf) contains no trade secrets, but will tell
Microsoft users things they didn't know. (You can read it directly on
your own computer from the above link, or read it inline below.)
[1] http://cryptome.org/
[2] http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/2010/02/microsoft-online-services-global-criminal-compliance-handbook.pdf
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