[Discuss] Canary heart beat protocol?

[Dan Krol]

Interestingly, it seems that Moxie Marlinspike's lawyers have told him that
a canary (for TextSecure) would not hold up:

https://github.com/WhisperSystems/whispersystems.org/issues/34

On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 12:23 PM, Freddy Martinez <freddymartinez9 at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Hey all this is an excellent idea! You all beat me to Micah Lee's
> repository. I have a few comrades who have already deployed a warrant
> canary and here is what they have done. They submit routine updates to
> their webpage every few months with a GPG signed message that says "we have
> not received any NSLs or been contacted by law enforcement about our
> members". Then also post the date of the message and a note about how often
> it is updated (I believe every few weeks). I think we should do this with a
> GPG key that multiple members control (split among a few members). I
> believe the webpage I'm thinking of is libraryfreedomproject.org
>
> Freddy
>
> On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 12:30 Lincoln Bryant <lincolnb at uchicago.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> Seems like the Canary Watch website is powered by user submission, and
>> checks aren't done routinely. That's certainly something that could be
>> improved.
>>
>> re: the tweet, I feel like creating a standard for warrant canaries is
>> tricky business -- seems like it would make it easier to draft legislation
>> to prohibit canaries.
>>
>> --Lincoln
>>
>> On Jun 10, 2015, at 11:54 AM, sheila miguez wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 11:45 AM, meg ford <meg387 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> something similar. Not sure if you're aware of it -- maybe it will help
>>> to look at how they are dealing with reliability of info:
>>> https://canarywatch.org/
>>>
>>
>> Oh thanks! I looked at their twitter account and discovered
>> https://firstlook.org/code/project/autocanary/ too. the canarywatch
>> account retweeted
>> https://twitter.com/calyxinstitute/status/605737561991061505 which is
>> asking about canary standards.
>>
>>
>> --
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