pod.geraspora.de Warrant Canary
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As one of the largest nodes inside the decentralized social networking platform
diaspora* and given the fact we are hosting quite a huge amount of personal
data, uploaded files and secret messages created by our users, we might get
targeted by law enforcement and/or intelligence agencies.

Even if we are not located in the United States, recent events have shown
Germany (and other European countries) are not even close to being neutral
regarding the USAs "problems", thus we do not consider us being inside a safe
and protected environment. Even if they are not supporting the United States
intelligence agencies, they have their own interests in monitoring and
collecting data and activities.

Various national and international laws provide ways to search or seizure
servers, parts of the servers, backup devices and other things that would
affect the data privacy of our users. In addition, they could prevent us from
telling our users about what happened.

Governmental organization may force us, the Geraspora adminstration team, to
provide access to our users' personal data. In fact, we will comply with such
laws and orders to protect from further damages and penalties.

Since our servers are in a shared data center, we cannot be sure nobody had
access to the routers or fibre cables. However, this file contains a
cryptographically signed message containing:

- A declaration that, up to the date of the message, no warrants have been
  served, nor any data accessing interfaces and/or exports of user data have
  been provided to third parties.
- Two headlines from one English and one German news source to prove the
  creation date of the message.

The message will get updated between the 1st and 5th day of each month.

Special note should be taken if this message ever stop being updated, or is
removed from this page.

Current Message
===============

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA256

2019-09-01

No warrants have been served. No data was delivered to third parties on
request. No contents have been removed by governmental requests.

"Parliament suspension: Thousands protest across the UK" (from bbc.co.uk)

"Steinmeier-Reise nach Polen: Erneuter Defekt an Maschine der Flugbereitschaft"
(from spiegel.de)
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Notes
=====

The message above is signed by the leading administrator, Dennis Schubert. The
current public key can be found at https://schub.io/public-key.txt

Although the message is signed, it's possible third parties may have forced the
production of a false statement.

Also... thanks to the folks from rsync.net for providing a great inspiration on
how to write a warrant canary.