![]() ![]() HT+0Blg3Hru4OxbFM5+tqQMt4Z6Yxn07JmpXYnnYxkGAX+J6tC0LLCGq5PyMp2OO GWBCUHepItg3G8MCgQbBI34rJxSeTH8pPJdfwvVH89v/o5MimOQNxOu8jXLByyDS IQJKBAEBCgA0FiEETgeRJo98Z+q+iPGwMEPitxOado4FAmVD2k8WHGNvbGxlY3RpĭmVAcmlzZXVwLm5ldAAKCRAwQ+K3E5p2jl2PD/oCygsiubfYBsgqfKotAmHKudMj The current Canary is limited to significant events that could compromise the security of Riseup users. A Canary is supposed to signal important risk information to users, but there is also danger in signaling the wrong thing to users or leading to general fear and confusion for no good reason. Q: Why does the new Canary not mention gag orders, FISA court orders, National Security Letters, etc?Ī: Our initial Canary strategy was only harming users by freaking them out unnecessarily when minor events happened. This is not desirable, because if any one of a number of minor things happen, it signals to users that a major thing has happened. Q: Why didn't you update your canary on time in the winter of 2016?Ī: The canary was so broad that any attempt to issue a new one would be a violation of a gag order related to an investigation into a DDoS extortion ring and ransomware operation. Nevertheless, no they aren't forcing us to say anything. It's usually only in cases of consumer protection where the government has been successful in compelling speech (e.g. Q: Couldn't the government just make you say that?Ī: Forced speech is actually quite rare in the US legal context. ![]() We would rather stop being Riseup before we did that. We have never permitted installation of any hardware or software monitoring on any system that we control law enforcement has not taken our servers does not, and has never had access to them. Q: Are you compromised by law enforcement?Ī: No. We will include a link to a recent news article in each update to establish that the signature was not pre-generated. This canary will be re-signed on the following dates: Riseup positively confirms that the integrity of our system is sound: all our infrastructure is in our control, we have not been compromised or suffered a data breach, we have not disclosed any private encryption keys, and we have not been forced to modify our system to allow access or information leakage to a third party. ![]() If the statement is not updated in a timely fashion, users may infer that the canary statement may no longer be true. More recently, the term has been used by some online service providers to refer to an affirmative statement, updated regularly, that the provider has not been subjected to certain legal processes. If the canary died, it was time to get out of the mine. 1… A small songbird in the finch family, serinus canaria domestica, originally native to islands in the North Atlantic.Ģ… A mechanism to test for unsafe conditions, originating from the use of canaries in coal mines to detect poisonous gases or cave-ins. ![]()
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