I'm uninformed. What is the significance of riseup.net?
Tell HN: Riseup.net fails to update canary; fingerprints deleted without notice
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
For the abbreviation,"an FOIA" is correct. For the term "a Freedom of Information act" is correct. Its based on the sounds, not the word being abbreviated.
maybe they're reading "a foy-uh"
Got any references to anyone speaking a foy-uh out loud? Ive only ever know it to be 4 letters, said discretely, and not as a word like SQL.
Re: Tell HN: Riseup.net fails to update canary; fingerprints deleted without notice
#24I'm uninformed. What is the significance of riseup.net?
From top of their page: "
Riseup provides online communication tools for people and groups working on liberatory social change. We are a project to create democratic alternatives and practice self-determination by controlling our own secure means of communications.
"
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#26I'm uninformed. What is the significance of riseup.net?
They're my email and VPN providers with a great history for privacy.
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#27Is an FOIA request useful?
FOIA has a specific exemption for national security, so it's probably not useful regarding national security letters. https://www.foia.gov/faq.html#exemptions
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#28I'm uninformed. What is the significance of riseup.net?
From top of their page: " Riseup provides online communication tools for people and groups working on liberatory social change. We are a project to create democratic alternatives and practice self-determination by controlling our own secure means of communications. "
Total surveillance means a full frontal attack on democracy. And this situation here seems to be a tiny reminder.
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#29And from riseup.net @riseupnet listen to the hummingbird, whose wings you cannot see, listen to the hummingbird, don't listen to me. #LeonardCohen https://twitter.com/riseupnet/status/797142735283257345
Okay, that's telling, but the canary on its own seems to be valid still - it's from August 16, 2016, and they say it should be 'updated approximately once per quarter'
I certainly have no clue. I'm still getting email :)
And they've had indirect FBI attention before: https://riseup.net/en/about-us/press/fbi-seizes-anonymous-re...
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Okay, that's telling, but the canary on its own seems to be valid still - it's from August 16, 2016, and they say it should be 'updated approximately once per quarter'
I certainly have no clue. I'm still getting email :) And they've had indirect FBI attention before: https://riseup.net/en/about-us/press/fbi-seizes-anonymous-re...
> I'm still getting email :)
The failure mode of their warrant canary is not that you stop getting email, but that other people start getting your email too.