The Whistleblower Architects: surveillance, infrastructure, and freedom of information according to Cryptome (part 2)

2016-07-07T12:15:00-04:00

This is the second half of a two-part interview with Cryptome, an online repository of leaked government secrets and other documents relevant to contemporary surveillance and its infrastructure. Cryptome is run by the architects Deborah Natsios and John Young, who live and work in New York City (any use of the first person is from Natsios' perspective). Part one, which you can read here, delves into their backgrounds and motivations. Part two deals more with their views on the contemporary city and the politics of information access.

The Whistleblower Architects: surveillance, infrastructure, and freedom of information according to Cryptome (part 1)

2016-07-05T08:36:00-04:00

Architects are no strangers to controversy, but few have had their work called a “tip off [to] terrorists,” as The New York Times once described Deborah Natsios and John Young’s twenty year old project, Cryptome. Then again, few architects devote their time to disclosing government secrets, from the internal emails of Wikileaks to lists of alleged former members of the Stasi.

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The Whistleblower Architects: surveillance, infrastructure, and freedom of information according to Cryptome (part 2)

The Whistleblower Architects: surveillance, infrastructure, and freedom of information according to Cryptome (part 1)