We choose honesty and transparency with the public, and noncooperation with law enforcement, government, or private enemy entities.
Existing and proposed laws, especially as relate to the US Patriot Act, etc., provide for secret warrants, searches and seizures of data. Some such laws provide for criminal penalties for revealing the warrant, search or seizure, disallowing the disclosure of events that would materially affect the users of a service.
Everyone working on this project will not comply with such warrants and their provisions for secrecy. In the event that this decision ends poorly for us, we have arranged the following “canary” as a security measure to alert the community. In order to independently verify this canary, save the PGP public key below. It is only used for this purpose, and if it ever changes from one verification to the next, then foul play should be assumed. This PGP public key can be used to verify that the below message came from us.
At least every 3 months, the Scenes from the Atlanta Forest crew will post a dated, PGP signed statement with recent headlines below it as such:
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As of 2/04/2024(MM/DD/YYYY), no-one working on this project, nor the project itself has ever received a National Security Letter, an order under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, has been contacted by law enforcement, contacted by any government entity, has been served a subpoena for a Grand Jury related to this project, or any other classified request for user information. If we ever receive such a request, we would seek to let the public know.
Diplomatic tensions between Ecuador and Russia over military equipment threaten banana exports
Senate releases $118 billion aid proposal for Israel, Ukraine, border security
At least 99 people dead as wildfires rage in Chile, with fears toll could rise further
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