http://www.darkreading.com/security/privacy/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=223100764 By Kelly Jackson Higgins DarkReading Feb 25, 2010 In a bizarre up-and-down -- literally -- series of events, the controversial site Cryptome.org was forced offline yesterday after posting a sensitive Microsoft document on its site and was back online today. It all started when Cryptome, which operates as a repository for freedom of speech, cryptography, spy, and surveillance information and documents, posted a Microsoft surveillance compliance document called "Microsoft Online Services Global Criminal Compliance Handbook," and Microsoft filed a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) notice and Cryptome refused to remove the document from the site. Cryptome went back online today, posting a letter that appeared to be from its hosting provider Network Solutions stating that Microsoft had withdrawn its DCMA complaint. The site boasts that it "welcomes documents for publication that are prohibited by governments worldwide, in particular material on freedom of expression, privacy, cryptology, dual-use technologies, national security, intelligence, and secret governance -- open, secret and classified documents -- but not limited to those." Microsoft reportedly said today that it did not want Cryptome taken down. "We did not ask that this site be taken down, only that Microsoft copyrighted content be removed," Microsoft said in a statement to PC Magazine. "We are requesting to have the site restored and are no longer seeking the document's removal." [...] ___________________________________________________________ Register now for HITBSecConf2010 - Dubai, the premier deep-knowledge network security event in the GCC, featuring keynote speakers John Viega and Matt Watchinski! http://conference.hitb.org/hitbsecconf2010dxb/Received on Thu Feb 25 2010 - 23:47:51 PST
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