Official Canary Notice (announcements)

submitted ago by Voat

We have had 0 (zero) gag orders, National Security requests, FISA orders, injunctions, super-injunctions, publication bans, nor any free-speech prohibiting sanction against us, nor against Voat, nor against any signed-in user of Voat, nor against any guest user of Voat.

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SaneGoatiSwear ago

@virge, and voat, PRgoat here

puttitout has responded officially to my query about the missing honeypot/trap statement.

legally the words can be construed in different ways, and the statement wouldn't hold up with the rest.

hopefully, intelligent heads can come together and find the words in legalese to make this addendum a solid statement and get it up on the canary.

in any case, ALL data going through u.s. cables goes into NSA harddrives. ALL of it. webcams, audio and video from cellphones, emails, your porn. ALL of it gets recorded for an a.i. to go through and flag for human checking.

THAT SAID

the canary protects US in that it tells us that SPECIFIC things are being done to voat, if it dies - - which is a double edged sword, the more items we add, the less chance they'll do anything without us knowing, but also, the more items we add, the less sure WHICH of those things it is that just happened; it doesn't tell us about the general dragnet that is our nsa data collection program today, nor does it tell us if voat is a trap/honepot (although that's not been standard on any canaries i've ever seen)

so as atko says:

All in all, you need to make sure never to post any personally identifiable information on Voat or anywhere else online, if you want to stay anonymous. The internet is a dark mess with tracking beacons almost on every single website. Stay smart, and be your own privacy guard. We do everything we can to protect Voat and its data, but how do you know your ISP is not ratting you out?

My words and Putts words is all you have, but never rely on anyone to protect your privacy. Stay vigilant and do your part to protect yourself.

(i archived your link, atko :)

edit: comma and structure

really? downvoating prgoat relaying dev statements and further comment on voat's new warrant canary?

Donbuster ago

which is a double edged sword, the more items we add, the less chance they'll do anything without us knowing, but also, the more items we add, the less sure WHICH of those things it is that just happened;

In theory would a group of specific canaries solve this problem? Have a dedicated post with various bits of copypasta about each thing that gets posted every 4 weeks. If one canary dies that way, the rest don't go?

SaneGoatiSwear ago

yes, actually.

but then in practice, let's get this one canary right first. we need one of the owner/devs to click manually 1nc a month, not a bot.