On 12/21/15, Michael Best wrote:

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Just call it "TheCthulhu Archive," or something other than Cryptome, then good to go.

That seems silly. No one's going to confuse it with the original,

Rubbish. And you've especially highlighted one of John's points - you name your mirror "cryptome" and you're a) showing severe disrespect, b) deceiving others who don't know, c) violating the goodwill associated with Cryptome and John. I just wish such things were so obvious they did not need to be spelled out.

which is why you don't need to rename the files you post on your site.

WTF?! Do you hear what you're saying?

You don't need to call them "Cryptome's Nicholas Merrill v. FBI NSL History/Fee Request" and it's obviously TheCthulhu. Unlike the WikiLeaks mirror it doesn't even look like Cryptome.

John, thank you for your previous email reminding us there are higher standards we just might wish to hold ourselves to, and your genuine acceptance of others as they are - it's so easy to be otherwise blinded. I'm sure my true colours show as much as Michael and others too, and it's embarrassing how often I get picked up off the floor and dusted off. Perhaps wikileaks ought have just posted a hash sum file to "ensure verity". John, you evidently have great strength of resolve and fortitude of spirit, since what it must have taken to start and keep Cryptome going "pre-wikileaks" - wikileaks created some submission secrecy, clandestine facility, making it feel easier to leak, less stressful at leak time (notwithstanding little improvement in real protection of big leakers like Manning, so could be called deceiving in that sense). Your courage in doing what you saw must be done, in public, in spite of lack of 'privacy', in spite of exposure. So many today use a nom/ nim and think they're being secretive or elite, 'publicly discussing freedom and liberty from the State', but hiding from who? The 5 eyes, 9 eyes, 100 eyes get their target in general. Benefits? Common sense aint so common.

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A dual hat locution worthy of ever-duplicitous cryptology.

What?

You had to read the prior sentence. It's nothing much really, just patting someone condescendingly on the head as a prelude to gently inserting a knife. That sort of genre. Unless I'm wildly off base... John, my regards and respect, Zenaan