John Young John Young has been a New York City architect since 1970, and taught in graduate architecture programs at Columbia University, Pratt Institute, and through Urban Deadline, which he co-founded in 1968. He received a BA in Philosophy from Rice University in Houston in 1962, a Bachelor of Architecture from Rice in 1963, and a Master of Science in Architecture from Columbia University in 1969. He currently operates cryptome.org, a site that has become a vital source of free information on the net and which "welcomes documents for publication that are prohibited by governments worldwide, in particular material on freedom of expression, privacy, cryptology, dual-use technologies, national security, intelligence, and blast protection - open, secret, and classified documents."