{"id":31889,"date":"2025-06-11T03:39:27","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T03:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/john-l-young-89-dies-pioneered-posting-classified-documents-online\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T03:39:27","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T03:39:27","slug":"john-l-young-89-dies-pioneered-posting-classified-documents-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/john-l-young-89-dies-pioneered-posting-classified-documents-online\/","title":{"rendered":"John L. Young, 89, Dies; Pioneered Posting Classified Documents Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">John L. Young, who used his experience as a computer-savvy architect to help build <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/cryptome.org\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Cryptome<\/a>, a vast library of sensitive documents that both preceded WikiLeaks and in some ways outdid it in its no-holds-barred approach to exposing government secrets, died on March 28 at a rehabilitation facility in Manhattan. He was 89.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">His death, which was not widely reported at the time, was from complications of large-cell non-Hodgkin\u2019s lymphoma, his wife, Deborah Natsios, said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Cryptome, which Mr. Young and Ms. Natsios, the daughter of a C.I.A. officer, founded in 1996, offers up a grab-bag of leaked and obscure public-domain documents, presented in reverse chronological order and in a bare-bones, courier-fonted display, as if they had been written on a typewriter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The 70,000 documents on the site range from the seemingly innocuous \u2014 a course catalog from the National Intelligence University \u2014 to the clearly top secret: Over the years, Mr. Young exposed the identities of hundreds of intelligence operatives in the United States, Britain and Japan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI\u2019m a fierce opponent of government secrets of all kinds,\u201d <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/general-news-9972d0583f424d5b8b2f921d5abc8ef5\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">he told The Associated Press in 2013<\/a>. \u201cThe scale is tipped so far the other way that I\u2019m willing to stick my neck out and say there should be none.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Though he received frequent visits from the F.B.I. and his internet service providers occasionally cut off his website for fear of legal entanglements, he was never charged with a crime, and Cryptome was always soon back online.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Cryptome predated WikiLeaks and other anti-secrets sites by about a decade. Although Mr. Young was an early supporter of WikiLeaks and even co-registered its domain, he became a critic of its leader, Julian Assange, whom he said was too focused on his own celebrity and too willing to redact certain information.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Young, in contrast, was a purist: As long as a document wasn\u2019t a scam, it went on Cryptome. He said that while Mr. Assange considered himself a journalist, he thought of himself as an archivist, maintaining a vast trove of information but not responsible for its contents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A former 1960s left-wing radical, Mr. Young maintained a healthy \u2014 some might say excessive \u2014 wariness toward the government. He often told journalists that he thought they were spies and accused former friends of being double agents.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Armed with degrees in philosophy and architecture, he spent the 1970s leading a design nonprofit in New York, Urban Deadline, which built things like street-front \u201cschools\u201d in low-income neighborhoods.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In the 1980s, he specialized in making sure a building\u2019s systems and structures were up to code \u2014 work that he later compared to Cryptome\u2019s mission.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe are required by state laws as architects to police issues of public health, safety and welfare,\u201d <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/cryptome-is-pushing-for-all-of-the-snowden-docs-to-be-made-public\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">he told the website Vice in 2014<\/a>. \u201cThis is in the name of the public good. From Cryptome\u2019s perspective, we are obliged as architects to police the police, if you will. We are obliged to dissent, as required for the public good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Young was an early adopter of computer-assisted design, which in turn sparked his interest in debates about digital privacy that began to swirl in the late 1980s, as developments in telecommunications raised questions about the government\u2019s monopoly on cryptographic tools.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Young joined the mailing list of the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/learn\/articles\/what-is-cypherpunk\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Cypherpunks<\/a>, a loose group of hackers and programmers intent on opening up the internet and checking government efforts to monitor online traffic.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">At the time, most government documents were still in hard copy only. Mr. Young had a scanner, which he offered up free of charge to anyone who wanted to leak secret papers online \u2014 a service that he and Ms. Natsios eventually turned into Cryptome.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cCryptome was a critical piece of showing what kind of transparency the internet could bring,\u201d said Cindy Cohn, the executive director of the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Electronic Frontier Foundation<\/a>, a nonprofit that defends civil liberties in the digital world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Young was not without his critics; even his admirers said that his unwillingness to consider national-security interests when posting documents online could be unreasonable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But he countered that if anything, he was helping the government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIf you know a weakness, expose it, don\u2019t hide it,\u201d he told The Associated Press.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">John Lee Young was born on Dec. 22, 1935, in Millersview, a small town in central Texas. His mother, Beatrice (Rhodes) Young, oversaw the home, and his father, Orby Young, was an itinerant construction worker. They divorced when John was young, and he spent his childhood living with different relatives around the state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">After leaving school at 14, he spent three years at various jobs \u2014 picking cotton, hawking religious icons, selling Fuller brushes door to door \u2014 before joining the U.S. Army in 1953.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He was assigned to the Corps of Engineers in Germany. He spent his free time traveling around Europe, taking in the continent\u2019s vast architectural heritage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In 1956, despite his lack of a high school degree, Mr. Young entered college at Texas Tech. He transferred to Rice University in Houston and graduated in 1963 with degrees in philosophy and architecture. He then worked on historic preservation projects around the city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He arrived at Columbia University in 1967 to pursue a master\u2019s degree in the architecture school\u2019s new historic preservation program.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A year later, he joined dozens of students in the occupation of Avery Hall, the university&#8217;s main architecture building, during the campus protests against Columbia\u2019s involvement in the Vietnam War and its <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.columbia.edu\/exhibits\/show\/1968\/causes\/gym\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">plans for a new gymnasium<\/a> in Harlem.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Despite becoming a leader of the protesters, he was not expelled, and graduated in 1969.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Young\u2019s first wife, Martha (Calhoun) Young, died in 1968, leaving him to raise their four children. His second marriage, to Marjorie Hoog, ended in divorce. He met Ms. Natsios in 1990; they married in 1998.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Along with her, he is survived by three children from his first marriage, Marcolm, Lilac and Anina Young, as well as two grandchildren. His daughter Dara, also from his first marriage, died earlier. He lived in Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Young never stopped practicing architecture, even after he founded Cryptome. He and Ms. Natsios kept the website spare in part to save time and money; he insisted that it took them only a few hours of work a week, and about $2,000 a year, to maintain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It was, he insisted, a public service, his way of giving back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe thing that made the internet and the \u201990s and the early 2000s special were people like John Young,\u201d Ms. Cohn said, \u201cwho just kind of showed up and started making things that were interesting and useful and important and were just stubborn enough to make them happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/06\/10\/us\/john-l-young-dead.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John L. 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