Thanks for your work. You confirmed my suggestions that someone is trying to discredit the CryptoNote technology along with all the CN-based coins.
Just throwing this out there, but if the correct whitepaper was on the Bytecoin domain all along and on the TOR Cryptonote site, how can we trust that CryptoNote.org is genuine? What if they falsified the whitepapers on purpose?
I thought about that... And I agree with @Cheesus
Regarding the website mysteries... my bet is on that CN didnt make their own website themselves - did you ever see a nice, design-ish site from a hardcore developers of pretty much any technology? I sure as hell didnt, simply because bearded, covered in sweaters guys dont do this kind of stuff.
I mean, look at XMR - they got tons of websites and all of them look like shit.
I think CN ordered a website to someone. Its just doesnt add up - whats the point for hardcore developers to spend so much time designing and coding this website. There probably should be the guy who admins website, actually, maybe he is the guy that replaced those files. Would love to ask him a few questions if he exists.
This casts doubt that CN web site was developed by CryptoNote's team itself. S
omeone else has attempt to it.