Perhaps it interests me to find lost internet pages. Perhaps it is like throwing rice in front of an East-European vampire: the vampire must stop and count all the grains, you know. It could be that if I am surfing along quietly to myself, and am brought up short by a 'connection reset while the server was trying to load,' or an 'about: blank' where google's cached page was supposed to be, or a straight up blank page where the internet archive promised me the original page -- well it could be that I feel a certain desire, an inordinate (to some) stubborn desire, to retrieve that page.
Perhaps I have retrieved many, many, many items over the years.
Whether or not this is the case -- and it may indeed be so -- I have decided that should hard-to-find things come my way, I will repost them, and take a snapshot with t he Internet Archive. Not that such links cannot be broken, of course. If I have posted something and the Intrepid yet Gentle Reader finds the link broken, do make this known via the comments, or feel free to contact me.
Some background: Pursuant to demonstrating to a friend what exemplary cojones belong to Mr. John Young of Cryptome, I retrieved his archive of the email correspondence between himself and Yahoo. This is included, below, reposted from this link. At the end of the exchange, the 'rude finger' remark links to a Reader's Digest page -- ah! but that link is broken! and the vampire is off.....
After a bit of frustration (Reader's Digest refuses to be crawled by the Internet Archive) I found the page here, thanks to Diigo. Should anything happen to that link, and because it relies on a timestamped access key (for a cached page from 2009?), here is a base-64-encoded version; a high definition PNG is below.
| 7 December 2009. Updated to add more spying doc links. 5 December 2009 A hardcopy of the PDF Yahoo demand notice was received by Fedex on December 4, 2009. Subject: RE: DMCA Notice of Infringing Material Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 16:16:38 -0500 From: "Gershberg, Michael"
To: "John Young" Mr. Young, A copyright notice is optional for any work created after March 1, 1989. Yahoo!'s document is in fact copyrighted. Cryptome's delay in removing the infringing material is not warranted. Sincerely, Mike Gershberg _________ Subject: RE: DMCA Notice of Infringing Material Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 17:32 From: "John Young"
To: "Gershberg, Michael" Dear Mr. Gershberg, I cannot find at the Copyright Office a grant of copyright for the Yahoo spying document hosted on Cryptome. To assure readers Yahoo's copyright claim is valid and not another hoary bluff without substantiation so common under DMCA bombast please send a copy of the copyright grant for publication on Cryptome. Until Yahoo provides proof of copyright, the document will remain available to the public for it provides information that is in the public interest about Yahoo's contradictory privacy policy and should remain a topic of public debate on ISP unacknowledged spying complicity with officials for lucrative fees. Yahoo's letter via Steptoe and Johnson to the US Marshal's Service belaboring at length, rather fee-enhanced, its right to confidentiality about Yahoo's spying complicity guide has heightened suspicion that Yahoo's business profit has undermined its promised customer trust. The information in the document which counters Yahoo's customer privacy policy suggests a clearing of the air is in order to assure customer reliance on Yahoo's published promises of trust. A rewrite of Yahoo's spying guide to replace the villainous one would be a positive step, advice of an unpaid, non-lawyerly independent panel could be sought to avoid the stigma associated with DMCA coercion. Note: Yahoo's exclamation point is surely trademarked so omitted here. Regards, John Young Cryptome Administrator Subject: DMCA Notice of Infringing Material Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 19:50:22 -0500 From: "Gershberg, Michael"
To: cryptome[at]earthlink.net Mr. Young, On behalf of our client, Yahoo! Inc., attached please find a notice of copyright infringement pursuant to Section 512 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Thank you for your cooperation in this matter. Best, Mike Gershberg Mike Gershberg Steptoe & Johnson LLP 1330 Connecticut Ave., NW Washington, DC 20036 Phone (202) 429-6208 Fax (202) 261-0538 mgershberg[at]steptoe.com __________ Subject: DMCA Notice of Infringing Material Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 20:30 To: "Gershberg, Michael"
From: John Young jya[at]pipeline.com Dear Mr. Gershberg, The Yahoo document hosted on Cryptome was found on the Internet at a publicly accessible site. There is no copyright notice on the document. Would you please provide substantiation that the document is copyrighted or otherwise protected by DMCA? Your letter does not provide more than assertion without evidence. Regards, John Young Cryptome Administrator Mr. Gershberg, P.S. I failed to send a rude finger to your colleague Stewart Baker for this: Yet there's little anyone can do to stop people like Young. "You're protected by the First Amendment guarantee of free speech. It's hard to prosecute someone who uses public sources to pull together information -- even when that information clearly shouldn't be revealed," says Stewart Baker, a technology lawyer and former general counsel for the National Security Agency. "If the material is leaked to you, you can probably publish that too. Unfortunately, it's not illegal to be a jerk." John Young Several parties have provided telco and ISP lawful interception (spying) guides, some with prices (more coming): att-spy-doc-02.zip ATT Lawful Spying Document 2 December 6, 2009 (2.9MB) verizon-spy.pdf Verizon Lawful Spying Guide December 6, 2009 sprint-spy2.pdf Sprint CALEA Spying Delivery System December 6, 2009 sprint-spy.zip Sprint Lawful Spying Guide December 5, 2009 (600KB) voicestream-spy.zip Voicestream Lawful Spying Guide December 5, 2009 (626KB) yahoo-spy.pdf Yahoo Lawful Spying Guide December 2, 2009 cox-spy.pdf Cox Lawful Spying Guide December 2, 2009 sbc-ameritech-spy.pdf SBC-Ameritech Lawful Spying Guide December 2, 2009 sbc-lea-spy.pdf SBC Lawful Spying Guide December 2, 2009 ameritech-spy.pdf Ameritech Lawful Spying Guide December 2, 2009 cingular-spy.pdf Cingular Lawful Spying Guide December 2, 2009 cricket-spy.pdf Cricket Lawful Spying Guide December 2, 2009 nextel-spy.pdf Nextel Lawful Spying Guide December 2, 2009 pactel-spy.pdf Pacific Telesis Lawful Spying Guide December 2, 2009 gte-spy.pdf GTE Lawful Spying Guide December 2, 2009 READ THIS SITE, RAISE HELL WITH THE TELECOMMS BETRAYING THEIR CUSTOMERS! 8 Million Reasons for Real Surveillance Oversight Christopher Soghoian Sprint Nextel provided law enforcement agencies with its customers' (GPS) location information over 8 million times between September 2008 and October 2009. This massive disclosure of sensitive customer information was made possible due to the roll-out by Sprint of a new, special web portal for law enforcement officers. The evidence documenting this surveillance program comes in the form of an audio recording of Sprint's Manager of Electronic Surveillance, who described it during a panel discussion at a wiretapping and interception industry conference, held in Washington DC in October of 2009. It is unclear if Federal law enforcement agencies' extensive collection of geolocation data should have been disclosed to Congress pursuant to a 1999 law that requires the publication of certain surveillance statistics -- since the Department of Justice simply ignores the law, and has not provided the legally mandated reports to Congress since 2004. |
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