rsync.net Warrant Canary

Existing and proposed laws, especially as relate to the US Patriot Act, etc., provide
for secret warrants, searches and seizures of data, such as library records.

Some such laws provide for criminal penalties for revealing the warrant, search or seizure, disallowing the disclosure of events that would materially affect the users of a service
such as rsync.net.

rsync.net and its principals and employees will in fact comply with such warrants and their provisions for secrecy.

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.



The current message is here:


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Hash: SHA1

2019-09-16

No warrants have ever been served to rsync.net, or rsync.net principals or employees.
No searches or seizures of any kind have ever been performed on rsync.net assets,
including:

ALL San Diego locations
ALL Denver locations
ALL Zurich locations
ALL Hong Kong locations

(from http://www.ft.com/home/us)

JPMorgan metals traders charged with market manipulation
US prosecutors allege 'massive, multiyear scheme' to defraud customers

Johnson reboot of Brexit talks founders
Luxembourg premier lambasts Tories for trying to blame Brussels for 'mess we are in'

Fed wrestles with trade war and Saudi oil uncertainty
A potential oil shock will add to problems policymakers already face assessing economic risks

Sunday, September 15

Red Sox 6
Phillies 3

Yankees 4
Blue Jays 6

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https://www.rsync.net/resources/pubkey.txt

Notes:

This scheme is not infallible.  Although signing the declaration makes it impossible for a third party to produce arbitrary declarations, it does not prevent them from using force to coerce rsync.net to produce false declarations.  The news clip in the signed message serves to demonstrate that that update could not have been created prior to that date.  It shows that a series of these updates were not created in advance and posted on this page.