[kozubik]

Done and done:

http://www.rsync.net/resources/notices/canary.txt

We've been running it for seven years now:

http://blog.kozubik.com/john_kozubik/2010/08/the-warrant-can...

[cnbeuiwx]

Very nice, but what if you get a gag order from FBI or NSA? Then you would be required to go to prison if you uphold your promises on the web site and disclose what happened.

But I would be interested in your comments regarding this theoretical situation. Surely you must have thought about it.

[kozubik]

The gag order is the whole point.

Read through it again - it is a positive, affirmative statement that we make each week (and make in three continents). A judge (or LEA, whatever) would have to compel us to make false public statements on an ongoing basis, and would have to further compel foreign (swiss) nationals to do likewise.

Can we be held in contempt, etc., for refusing to make public false statements ? Perhaps.

In reality, since rsync.net is not actually an ISP (we take pains to make sure we do not count as an ISP, since it allows us to skip things like the OP has posted) and since we host no publicly available materials, we're not likely to get a warrant. If we do, it's likely to be an extremely mundane act of discovery, etc. That would get added to the warrant canary and we would continue updating it.

In our 11 years of running this service (7 years under the "rsync.net" brand) we've not gotten a single one.

But the parent to these comments was speaking of taking a stand, which is why this was instituted - people do indeed need to make a stand. We refuse to live in a world with Lettres de Cachet, and that's that.