Calling bullshit. Mirimirs right, explanation makes no sense. And JYA says netso
l won't let him delete the logs but Netsol says [1]logs are disabled by default
and you have to turn them on.

So how the fuckd this really happen?

Mirimir <mirimir@riseup.net>
Are you arguing that users could have found those logs?

I almost can't imagine that. Logs are normally in /var/log/ somewhere,
and I can't imagine making them searchable. And indeed, I can't imagine
how Cryptome archives would have included anything from /var/log/, even
after system restore from backups.

<--SNIP-->

> Should access logs be kept for that long?  Absolutely not.  From what I
> have read in the email exchange that was posted, the log files were
> included in a NetSol total restore.  My guess is that John/Cryptome did
> not intentionally keep these files, and did not realize these files were
> included in the archive.

But that's the thing. Logs should have been in /var/log/. And how would
the "NetSol total restore" have changed that?

> When I do incremental backups or updates on my own systems, I don't
> usually go back and check the integrity of files I've already archived
> in my closed system.  I can see where this could be an honest mistake
> that has gotten blown way out of proportion.  It's a good lesson to be
> more aware of these types of glitches.

I still don't get how logs would have ended up in archives. Maybe JYA
prepared a special set of archives for a collaborator. Maybe for someone
helping him to understand what had happened. And then maybe he forgot
about doing that. Hard to say.

References

   1. https://www.networksolutions.com/support/how-to-enable-download-the-web-logs/