On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 4:21 PM, Michael Carbone <mich...@qubes-os.org> wrote: > Me: >> Michael Carbone: >>> Me: >>>> Qubes users beware. Riseup Services (including email)are likely >>>> compromised by State actors. >>>> For more info and to verify above statement visit >>>> https://riseup.net/canary {here you'll see that the canary statement >>>> hasn't been updated quarterly as promised} and here >>>> https://www.whonix.org/blog/riseup. >>>> Google the topic and you'll see lots of other statements that Riseup is >>>> no longer trusted. >>>> Stay Safe >>> >>> https://theintercept.com/2016/11/29/something-happened-to-activist-email-provider-riseup-but-it-hasnt-been-compromised/ >>> >>> which includes statements from the Riseup team. >>> >>> It sounds like they were served with something boring, but because of >>> how they defined their warrant canary they had to not update it. >>> Removing a warrant canary does not mean compromise, which is one of the >>> weaknesses of poorly defined (and followed) warrant canaries. >>> >> The Intercept may be correct. However they do not publish this tweet >> from Riseup "listen to the hummingbird, whose wings you cannot see, >> listen to the hummingbird, don't listen to me." It doesn't take a rocket >> scientist to intepret this. In any case, I have my doubts about the >> integrity of The Intercept; which is funded by the owner of PAYPAL; that >> well known privacy activist! who in the past hast blocked donations to >> Wikileaks et al > > and riseup has been ungaged regarding their court order: > > https://riseup.net/en/about-us/press/canary-statement > > "After exhausting our legal options, Riseup recently chose to comply > with two sealed warrants from the FBI, rather than facing contempt of > court (which would have resulted in jail time for Riseup birds and/or > termination of the Riseup organization). The first concerned the public > contact address for an international DDoS extortion ring. The second > concerned an account using ransomware to extort money from people." Unrelated to the possible compromize due to your notice I've found technical details page on the bitmask vpn (I've posted offtopic question relaated bitmask here why people are asking for invite). Now will look about tech details on how them pretend to technically prove bitmask is better than other vpn solutions. I'm surprised that direct link to https://leap.se/en/docs/get-involved/project-ideas is not near of those market claims.
BTW: I'm 1st time realized a canary being a little helpful. :) BTW2: 've reviewed qubes os dox due to upgrade in progress and amused that project is moving to distributed state. Perfect! -- Bye.Olli. gpg --search-keys grey_olli , use key w/ fingerprint below: Key fingerprint = 9901 6808 768C 8B89 544C 9BE0 49F9 5A46 2B98 147E Blog keys (the blog is mostly in Russian): http://grey-olli.livejournal.com/tag/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/CABunX6NN4JqrThuAPWaqaeDAU93YD5v_Pdyr_2Hk7q%3DPKVDK8g%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
