--- coderman <coderman@gmail.com> wrote:
I am using a new offsite storage vendor, rsync.net, which publishes what they call a "warrant canary":
(snip)
How large of a grain of salt should I take this with ?
doesn't seem too useful. if a warrant/NSL is served, was it for your system? do you now switch providers? assume all secrets are compromised?
Well, no it's not useful in _avoiding_ the warrant, but nothing really is. It seems useful in defeating the secrecy of the warrant. I'd rather know than not know, all else being equal ...
if you are concerned then a hosting facility is probably the wrong place to keep your data / servers.
This is less of an ISP and more of a "filesystem in the sky" ... an offsite filesystem. I encrypt all of the data I send there, so it's not an issue, but it is an issue to know when things like this happen, and I like their stance. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com