why we need more cryptome mirrors, in all corners

Mirimir mirimir at riseup.net
Mon Oct 12 17:12:36 PDT 2015


On 10/12/2015 08:36 AM, Razer wrote:
> "Let me make this PERFECTLY CLEAR"
> 
> It's not a 'mirror'. So far as I can see, it's a dump. The National
> Security Archive maintains a mirror @IA and you aren't going to find any
> dox 'in the wild' or modified, or even SUSPECTED of being modified dox
> on that reflector.

IA is a very cool thing. But they play it very safe. So I totally don't
get the idea of expecting them to host even Ctyptome-level stuff. In my
experience, controversial stuff lasts maybe a few hours there.

> On 10/11/2015 03:45 PM, coderman wrote:
> 
>> for this, i am quite grateful to see the archive.org natsec section
>> expanded with cryptome mirror!
>>
> 
> 
> 
> On 10/11/2015 03:45 PM, coderman wrote:
> 
> On 10/10/15, Shelley <shelley at misanthropia.org> wrote:
> 
>> ...
>> 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,
> 
> 
> 



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