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ziq wrote (edited )

Reply to comment by emma in by !deleted34689

also moxie says they don't even work, so it feels like pushing a boulder up a hill sometimes:

https://web.archive.org/web/20141027143819/https://github.com/WhisperSystems/whispersystems.org/issues/34

https://www.cnet.com/news/privacy/warrant-canary-what-you-need-to-know-about-this-online-privacy-warning-sign/

the very few sites that still use them only seem to update them a couple times a year

e.g.

https://www.parrotsec.org/docs/warrant-canary.html (november 21)

https://socialistra.org/canary/ (was december 21 but it's now been deleted by the looks of it)

https://help.riseup.net/canary (4 times a year)

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emma wrote

also moxie says they don't even work, so it feels like pushing a boulder up a hill sometimes

I don't dispute this, and I think it was a mistake to introduce the warrant canary in the first place, like no one could be coerced into updating one.

I guess your logic was that having the .onion would do enough for users who want to be shielded from the authorities, which I think is fair, and with the whitelisting function you'd be able to bypass bans on exit nodes. Took me a while to connect the dots, though.

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