In Memoriam: John L. Young, Cryptome Co-Founder

“John L. Young, who died March 28 at age 89 in New York City, was among the first people to see the need for an online library of official secrets, a place where the public could find out things that governments and corporations didn’t want them to know.”

John Young founded Cryptome in 1996 to publish what governments and corporations wanted hidden. Microsoft, the FBI, and the Secret Service all pushed him to take things down. He kept publishing for nearly 30 years. He died in March at 89.