# Cryptome: how AI models rank it, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. Named in 1 judge label across 1 category by 1 of 14 models. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/cryptome

## Standing by category

| Category | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [Whistleblowing and investigations](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/core/whistleblowing-and-investigations/index.md) | 0% | 106 | 100% | 1 |

## And against it

- "suffered a confirmed 2010 security breach... Use only as a last resort for historical archives, not active submissions." (Grok 4.20, Whistleblowing)

## By model

| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |

## Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Cryptome, from 1 of the 1 answers that named it (only the models that return a source list).

### Domains cited

- apc.org: 1
- ceur-ws.org: 1
- cjr.org: 1
- dl.acm.org: 1
- gijn.org: 1
- kq.freepressunlimited.org: 1
- nextgov.com: 1
- safetyofjournalists.org: 1
- securedrop.org: 1
- whistleblower.org: 1

### Pages cited

- https://apc.org/sites/default/files/APCSubmissionProtectionWhistleblowers.pdf: 1
- https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2749/paper5.pdf: 1
- https://cjr.org/the_news_frontier/tell_me_a_secret.php: 1
- https://cjr.org/tow_center_reports/guide_to_securedrop.php: 1
- https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-031-47748-5_3: 1
- https://gijn.org/stories/new-tools-reduce-risks-whistleblowing: 1
- https://kq.freepressunlimited.org/themes/accountability/investigations-and-impact/whistleblower-platforms: 1
- https://nextgov.com/people/2013/06/could-internal-whistleblower-platforms-prevent-public-scandal/212074: 1

## Record

- Method: https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/methodology
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as Gane Index, November 2026 Edition, www.gane.ai/index/hr.