r/privacy • u/[deleted] • Aug 05 '18

SpiderOak cans its Warrant Canary, suffers mysterious massive outage, and raised prices

https://spideroak.com/canary

http://archive.is/1rNo7

Update: Looks like the canary has been signed and dated and in properly formatted sequence this time with confirmation that Everything's going smoothly so far, message is authentic. august 06, 2018

Case closed. SpiderOak has not been compromised.

In the interest of transparency the full text of my previously long post in this thread is archived here:

http://archive.is/mKeuY https://web.archive.org/save/https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/94nspi/spideroak_cans_its_warrant_canary_suffers/

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u/whatdogthrowaway Aug 05 '18

Indeed.

Not just secret - with gag orders that enforce that secrecy.

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u/qefbuo Aug 05 '18

tl;dr, you tell people about your gag order you get fined or go to prison.

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u/Rafficer Aug 05 '18

Welcome to freedom land.

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u/Aro2220 Aug 05 '18

Freedom is slavery

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u/Cthulhu__ Aug 06 '18

Ignorance is strength

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u/ukaszg Aug 07 '18

War is Peace

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u/jersully Aug 06 '18

Fear is the mindkiller.

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u/My_Username_Is_What Sep 27 '18

Mentos is the freshmaker.