On 10/10/15, Shelley
... The Cryptome archives *are* publicly accessible. John limits bots and leechers to a certain number of files per day (as is his right, he is paying for the bandwidth), approx 100 iirc, but anyone who can use search strings can find anything on the site.
it is exceptionally difficult, short of ordering physical duplicates, to obtain a significant portion of cryptome archive from cryptome.org. part of this is inherent abuse - any mirror gets serious algorithmic beatings - akin to HackingTeam mirrors perhaps, not counting the mindless cloud VM bot walkers, annoying enough. even the hidden service only mirrors got offensive proddings. remember, some of cryptome-opponents are relying on obscurity - thwarted every time some makes a mirror... for this, i am quite grateful to see the archive.org natsec section expanded with cryptome mirror! https://archive.org/details/nationalsecurityarchive thanks to all involved (esp. you, Michael :) best regards,