The main problem with canaries is that it's dead easy for a government to remove them from existence, simply issue subpoenas to every website that has one.
The users could then decide to jump ship but realistically they won't.
The users could then decide to jump ship but realistically they won't.
Ten years ago it was a scandal that big tech interacted with the surveillance state at all: Zuckerberg drove an initiative around cross-DC encryption at ruinous expense because of the mere accusation that the NSA might have a tap.
Today they’re giving us the finger with NSA board members. It’s flagrant, arrogant, and anti-hacker anything: you will do nothing, because you can do nothing.
The vassalization of these companies was imminent, and now, it is complete.
I’m sad because so many of my personal heroes, the hackers I’ve admired, are just on board past any possible argument that it’s in the public welfare.
I learn in the same month that OpenAI is satisfying their voracious appetite for data with an NSA partnership as I do that the old-school FB infra braintrust is taking the money.
I’m embarrassed by all of this. I want to be remembered as part of something else.
Why can't social media platforms implement warrant canaries per user profile?