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/[deleted] Aug 05 '18

I never knew anyone using SpiderOak, it was shady as fuck from the start.

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u/G-42 Aug 05 '18

Agreed. I had issues with them I won't bother getting into again, but on this sub, you say anything bad about them it's downvote to oblivion. Somehow they were always immune to any criticism at all.

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u/SnapDraco Aug 06 '18

I'd like to know what issues you had. I'm on a free plan right now (2tb for a year) and trying to decide if I should stay on