Forget four days.
I had my story up on wired.com, at least arguably more mass media
than Drudge, within a day.
-Declan
On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 09:40:00AM -0700, Anonymous wrote:
> The drudge factor: it took less than 4 days for story to migrate from
> cpunks to mass media.
>
> I would suggest better capitalization management in the future: once
> there is an obvious media-outlet consumable item, a cpunk meme should
> be piggybacked on to it, so once brainless vaginas on TV start to read
> the story, the meme jumps through the glass.
>
> In this case JYA could mention that he got PGP encrypted message from
> the source or whatever ... I am not a marketoid.
>
> =====
>
> XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX SAT JULY 22 2000 18:02:48 ET XXXXX
>
> WEB LEAK SPOOKS THE SPOOKS; SECRET CIA DOCS END UP ONLINE
>
> A secret CIA report of the U.S. intelligence community has been posted
> on the Internet!
>
> The CIA briefing, prepared for visiting Japanese intelligence
> officials has appeared on CRYPTOME, an Internet site [
> http://jya.com/crypto.htm ], which is run by activists opposed to
> government secrecy.
>
> CRYPTOME’s webmaster, John Young, tells Sunday’s WASHINGTON POST that
> he posted the secret CIA document, together with lists naming hundreds
> of agents from Japan's Public Security Investigation Agency, after
> receiving the documents from a source in Japan.
>
> CIA officials have not asked Young to remove the briefing, but two FBI
> agents called him on Thursday and forwarded a request from the
> Japanese Ministry of Justice that the lists be removed. "Young
> refused, saying publication of the lists contributed to public
> awareness of how government agencies function," reports the POST.
>
