[cryptome] Re: Why cryptome sold web logs to their paying customers?

[Michael Best]

Anyway to rule this out other than hearing it from John? How long before we
begin to seriously consider it or assume it?

And if there was a NSL, why not shut down? Why put users at ongoing risk??

On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 4:19 PM, bbrewer <bbrewer at littledystopia.net> wrote:

>
> > On Oct 11, 2015, at 4:04 PM, Michael Best <themikebest at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > That would explain keeping silent, NOT making up lies about me and
> saying the data is fake.
> >
>
> Perhaps he knew that you would keep the ‘conversation’ raging, therefore
> bringing it more ‘into the light’ than silence itself would prompt. Since
> you’ve been ‘on the case’, cypherpunks is 90% this subject matter, and 10%
> other cruft.
>
> Again, perhaps that was the intended purpose.
>
>
> Ie, in a different thread about the same subject (after he poked and
> prodded you earlier in said thread…)
>
> >
> > On Oct 8, 2015, at 6:23 AM, John Young <jya at pipeline.com> wrote:
> >
> > We've encouraged Best to continue doing what he is doing after using
> Cryptome
> > as a platform, counsel and source of information. He did set up a
> website, did
> > mirror the Cryptome archives, did do further research and announce it
> widely
> > and has picked a fight with several parties, complained of mistreatment,
> > censorship, abuse, exposed collateral innocent (ha!) parties.
> >
> > We also told Best log files are the dirtiest secret of the Internet,
> none are
> > secure, none private, none singular, admins and websites lie about using
> > them, exploiting them, deleting them, needing them, stealing them,
> accusing
> > about them, inflating them, rigging them. They pay for the Net, thus not
> ever
> > going away or kept secure.
> >
> > So Best is going in the tried and true direction, many others have
> staggered.
> > And if determined he will avoid depending on anybody for support. More
> power
> > to the asshole, welcome to the world of disputatious assholes,
> cypherpunks,
> > the Internet, the planet.
> >
> > Brave new growth to kill off the cowardly old.
> >
> > Praise and support controls, don't seek it or succumb to it. Enjoy
> fucking
> > yourself, Best, to entertain audiences. Cheers and keep at it.
>
> I don’t know; neither do you. Selling old ass log files on purpose isn’t
> full of much sense if you’re constraining yourself into thinking ‘inside
> the box’. JYA doesn’t seem very in the box to me, but hey…
>
> Cheers,
> -benjamin
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