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: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 2021-05-10 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 ALL Fremont locations (from http://www.ft.com/) US and Europe split on bringing bankers back to the office Transatlantic rift opens over speed at which employees should return to their desks Rise of Elise Stefanik shows Trump maintains his grip on Republicans New York congresswoman in pole position to replace Liz Cheney who is likely to be ousted this week US investors revolt against executive pay in record numbers Many backlashes stem from plan changes to ensure bonuses were paid out during pandemic Sunday, May 9 2021 Red Sox 4, Orioles 3 Nationals 2, Yankees 3 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (FreeBSD) iEYEAREIAAYFAmCZe6UACgkQBzwoLX1vgGwcugCbBmCB5n1ORoCZq2FEFdi/2TbU glMAn3NK+zTK8qFMQONSBOf7XsmImiZ1 =+E12 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- 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.