20 Facts About Cryptome

Cryptome is a 501 private foundation created in 1996 by John Young and Deborah Natsios and sponsored by Natsios-Young Architects.

Cryptome is known for publishing the alleged identity of the CIA analyst who located Osama Bin Laden, lists of people allegedly associated with the Stasi, and the PSIA.

Cryptome was one of the early organizers of WikiLeaks and published the alleged internal emails of the WikiLeaks organization.

Cryptome is known for publishing the alleged identity of British intelligence agent and anti-Irish Republican Army assassin Stakeknife.

Cryptome republished the already public surveillance disclosures of Edward Snowden and announced in June 2014 that they would publish all unreleased Snowden documents later that month.

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Cryptome has received praise from notable organizations such as the EFF, but has been the subject of criticism and controversy.

Cryptome continued to post controversial materials including guides on "how to attack critical infrastructure" in addition to other instructions for illegal hacking "for those without the patience to wait for whistleblowers".

Cryptome has received criticism for its handling of private and embarrassing information.

Cryptome grew up in West Texas where his father worked on a decommissioned Texas POW camp, and Young later served in the United States Army Corps of Engineers in Germany and earned degrees in philosophy and architecture from Rice University and his graduate degree in architecture from Columbia University in 1969.

Cryptome's work earned him a position on the nominating committee for the Chrysler Award for Innovation in Design in 1998.

Cryptome has received citations from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Legal Aid Society.

Cryptome later received her graduate degree in architecture from Princeton University.

Cryptome has taught architecture and urban design at Columbia University and Parsons The New School for Design, and held seminars at the Pratt Institute and the University of Texas.

Cryptome additionally holds a degree in mathematics from Smith College.

Cryptome has given talks at the USENIX Annual Technical Conference and Architectures of Fear: Terrorism and the Future of Urbanism in the West, and written on topics ranging from architectural theory to defenses of Jim Bell and assassination politics.

Cryptome's name was included in the 1996 membership directory of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers, which Cryptome helped to publish.

Cryptome was awarded the Defensor Libertatis award at the 2010 Big Brother Awards, for a "life in the fight against surveillance and censorship" and for providing "suppressed or otherwise censored documents to the global public".

The awards committee noted that Cryptome had engaged with "every protagonist of the military-electronic monitoring complex".

Giganews criticized Cryptome for posting unverified allegations which Giganews described as completely false and without evidence.

Peter Earnest, a 36-year veteran of the CIA turned executive director of the International Spy Museum and chairman of the board of directors of the Association for Intelligence Officers criticized Cryptome for publishing the names of spies, saying it does considerable damage and aids people that would do them harm.