[liberationtech] rsync.net Warrant Canary

adrelanos adrelanos at riseup.net
Mon Aug 12 19:53:56 PDT 2013


Moritz Bartl:
> Nice idea. I would use a trusted timestamp instead of a headline, but
> anyway. What do you think, should I do this for torservers.net/onion.to?
> 
> http://www.rsync.net/resources/notices/canary.txt
> 
> rsync.net will also make available, weekly, a "warrant canary" in the
> form of a cryptographically signed message containing the following:
> 
> - a declaration that, up to that point, no warrants have been served,
> nor have any searches or seizures taken place
> 
> - a cut and paste headline from a major news source, establishing date
> 
> Special note should be taken if these messages ever cease being updated,
> or are removed from this page.

Awesome! However euphoric I may be about this...

Might there be a chance for getting sued for this?

If this is safe, it would be awesome if all major pages could implement
this. torservers.net, torproject.org, truecrypt.org, gnupg.org, etc.



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