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Microsoft Gets Cryptome.org shut down - Bob Schroeck - 02-28-2010
Microsoft used the DCMA to shut down Cryptome after a company document detailing what information it can provide on its products' users to government agencies seeking to investigate and/or spy on them was posted on the site. Wired article here.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
- Black Aeronaut - 02-28-2010
Blarg... Think they can recover from this?
- Bob Schroeck - 02-28-2010
Probably. I'm almost more interested in seeing if Microsoft now attacks Wired, given that Wired is now hosting the disputed document.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
- Foxboy - 02-28-2010
Cryptome is back up, I think spotted a link at the end of the article. The shutdown was the ISP covering its ass.
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''
-- James Nicoll
- Sweno - 03-01-2010
From what I have read, Microsoft sent the DMCA asking for the document to be removed. I don't think that their lawyers would be stupid enough to think they could shut down the entire site.
So an ISP overreacting is something I'll believe.
-Terry
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"so listen up boy, or pornography starring your mother will be the second worst thing to happen to you today"
TF2: Spy