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Massachusetts subpoenas Cryptome's logs . . . but Cryptome doesn't keep logs
Posted by James Grimmelmann on Wednesday, January 08 @ 11:49:31 EST Civil Liberties
Cryptome, a private online archive of security-related documents, was served Tuesday with a subpoena asking it to turn over its user logs. The subpoena asked for the IP addresses of all visitors who viewed a specific page on the site. Cryptome's polite and succinct reply: we delete our logs daily.

I saw John Young, who runs Cryptome, speak last year. Deleting his logs fits in with his pragmatic approach to keeping the site alive: Cryptome is never the only site hosting a particular document. As he put it, "If you don't want to get shut down, make it so that shutting you down won't keep the information from getting out."

Cryptome's archive on the matter is here. The page whose visitors the grand jury was interested in is here.

 
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Several questions about the adequacy of his reply (Score: 1)
by MurphysLaw on Wednesday, January 08 @ 13:30:17 EST
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Was his PGP-signed statement sufficient to comply with a request for a notarized statement?

Was a statement posted on his website a sufficient reply?

I don't think anything will come from it. He dosn't have the data subponeaed, so he can't provide it. Ho hum.


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Re: Massachusetts subpoenas Cryptome's logs . . . but Cryptome doesn't keep logs (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Thursday, January 09 @ 16:35:30 EST
I'm glad that the company I work for has a log
deletion policy. They don't want to be forced to
hand over this sort of thing. More companies should
seriously reconsider if they need things like IP
addresses logged for any length of time. (We keep
them one week only.)


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