[ISN] Microsoft Takes Down Whistleblower Site, Read the Secret Doc Here

From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:56:32 -0600 (CST)
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/02/microsoft-cryptome/

By Ryan Singel
Threat Level
Wired.com
February 24, 2010

Microsoft has managed to do what a roomful of secretive, three-letter 
government agencies have wanted to do for years: get the whistleblowing, 
government-document sharing site Cryptome shut down.

Microsoft dropped a DMCA notice alleging copyright infringement on 
Cryptome’s proprietor John Young on Tuesday after he posted a Microsoft 
surveillance compliance document that the company gives to law 
enforcement agents seeking information on Microsoft users. Young filed a 
counterclaim on Wednesday - arguing he had a fair use to publishing the 
document, a full day before the Thursday deadline set by his hosting 
provider, Network Solutions.

Regardless, Cryptome [1] was shut down by Network Solutions and its 
domain name locked on Wednesday - shuttering a site that thumbed its 
nose at the government since 1996 - posting thousands of documents that 
the feds would prefer never saw the light of day.

Microsoft did not return a call for comment by press time.

The 22-page document [2] (.pdf) contains no trade secrets, but will tell 
Microsoft users things they didn’t know. (You can read it directly on 
your own computer from the above link, or read it inline below.)

[1] http://cryptome.org/ 
[2] http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/2010/02/microsoft-online-services-global-criminal-compliance-handbook.pdf

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