Riseup Canary now dead for sure

in #news8 years ago

The warrant canary of the volunteer-run online platform Riseup who provide services for hacktivists wasn't updated in the course of last quarter, which lead to some suspicion that they received a gag order.

Popular provider of web tools for activists and anarchists and backbone of much infrastructure for internet freedom, Riseup.net has almost certainly been issued a gag order by the US government.
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UPDATE: Riseup has sent out a tweet asking people not to panic, asserting that they still have full control over their servers, and saying more information will come at some future date. Their studious failure to refute having a gag order basically certifies the existence of one. But again, don’t panic. A gag order doesn’t mean their servers are compromised. We have every reason to trust that Riseup would rather pull the plug.

https://c4ss.org/content/47015

However, now that the final quarter of the year has completely passed, it's safe to say that the platform is "dead" in the sense that it should be considered compromised for sure and that it shouldn't be recommended anymore.

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It's very interesting post :)
Thank you for sharing dear @herzmeister!!

Well, its better than Gmail. They should start charging for accounts.