Here's the archive.org history. I'm honestly not certain what to make of it
https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://spideroak.com/canary On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 9:10 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) < lop...@nedharvey.com> wrote: > For anyone who doesn't know, a warrant canary is when a company like > Dropbox, etc, publishes their Transparency Report, indicating the number of > times they've been subpoenaed for users' private information, and the > number of times they've handed it over. If you publish statistics > periodically saying "Zero national security letters" and then you stop > saying that one day, people may infer what they will. It is based on the > (untested) belief that while the government may demand you say nothing > about a particular request, they cannot compel you to lie about it. > > > > There are lots of ways for it to break down - most notably - If the > consequence of admitting you handed over information to the government were > the destruction of your reputation as a security company and destruction of > your business... How many business owners could find it in their hearts to > just tell one eensy weensy little lie? Probably a lot. > > > > But that's not what I'm here to ask you all about. > > > > Supposedly, this is SpiderOak's canary: > > https://spideroak.com/canary > > > > Unlike everyone else' canary, which explicitly give you statistics > > https://www.dropbox.com/transparency > > https://blog.protonmail.ch/transparency-report/ > > https://canary.silentcircle.com/ > > > > Spideroak's canary doesn't seem to say anything. This what I'm asking you > about: Are you able to read/interpret this differently from me? Am I > missing something? > > > > I see "Everything's going smoothly so far" and I see a headline from New > York Times, to validate the date, and PGP signatures. But "Everything's > going smoothly so far" is meaningless. This is not a canary - or it's a > dead canary. > > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > Tech@lists.lopsa.org > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > >
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