[os2warpman]

John was used by Wikileaks, registered the original Wikileaks domain, was blacklisted by Wikileaks insiders when he started questioning their financial (and "other") irregularities, and ended up cryptome'ing Wikileaks.

His site was not Wikileaks, he operated with morals and integrity. An example of this is how he had questions about how Wikileaks was publicized as a non-profit, when it was a project of The Sunshine Press-- a for-profit Icelandic corporation. Then the Wau Holland audit lies, selective releases, excessive and unaccounted-for spending, and obsession with money and publicity were all targets of his criticism.

John could smell the rot from a thousand miles away.

https://cryptome.org/wikileaks/wikileaks-leak.htm

"Fuck your cute hustle and disinformation campaign against legitimate dissent. Same old shit, working for the enemy." -John Young, on Wikileaks

John was a G. The O.G. His "Eyeball" series was the beginning of web-based OSINT.

[DaftDank]

I think the difference with John vs. Assange is that Assange seemed a lot more willing to take political sides/positions, whereas John was more neutral. I have visited Cryptome on/off for something like 25 years now. I have never once got the impression that he is the type of person who would selectively leak information out of political considerations.

[alfiedotwtf]

Personally knowing people around Assange, I never got that impression about Julian either - until around the time it became personal between Hilary and him - you could then almost see the flip in real time and attacking the Democrats because a personal vendetta.

[protocolture]

The Biography I read on him from Daniel Domscheit-Berg seemed similar. The guy was always weird, but the crusade was him vs the governments of the world.

He was proven right about a lot of the shit he was paranoid about. The revelation about the grand jury shut down a lot of lines of criticism.

[DrillShopper]

I can understand wanting to live in a world after Hillary Clinton.

[rsingel]

Yup, John saw that grift coming.

I'm till wondering where the millions of dollars in crypto donated to WikiLeaks disappeared to. The last financial accounting from wikileaks was in something like 2011.