Proxy.sh Warrant Canary

Proxy.sh believes that respect of privacy is of the utmost importance in today's world. Nonetheless, many jurisdictions throughout the world still permit some legitimate or illegitimate authorities to compromise people's privacy in the context of the rules of law. This includes, but is not limited to, the U.S. Patriot Act or the British H.R. 1981. Such laws would provide relevant warrant, search or seizure in the context of criminal investigations, while forbidding the disclosure of such events to the entire affected user base.

Proxy.sh already stated through its Ethical Policy that it would not hesitate to relocate to another jurisdiction if such law is employed in such way that would lead to compromising the privacy of its customers.

Nonetheless, Proxy.sh believes a Warrant Canary is a valuable addition, in order to confer always the most useful transparency. Indeed, between the time we are served with a legal request that would compromise our customers' privacy and the well being of our ethical policy, and the time we can technically cease operations in a specific jurisdiction and relocate to somewhere else, we might be subject to the terrible consequences explained earlier.

This is to tackle this problem that Proxy.sh will make available, on a daily basis, a "warrant canary" in the form of a cryptographically signed message containing the following:

- A declaration of honor, provided by our senior network engineer, Boian Mihailov, who certifies that, to the date of publication, no warrants, searches or seizures that have not been reported in our Transparency Report, have actually taken place;

- An excerpt of headlines from the Financial Times, a news source with great reputation, in order to establish the date.

As per pointed out by our comrades from rsync.net, "special note should be taken if these messages ever cease being updated, or are removed from this page."

The below "warrant canary" has been generated on: 2016-02-05

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Right now, we are Friday, February 05. 2016 Friday - 08:00 CET: Thick Cloud, 8°C (46°F) in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

To this date, there has been no warrants, searches or seizures that have not been reported in our Transparency Report, and that have actually taken place. The sky is blue :)

No warrants, searches or seizures of any kind, other than those reported via our Transparency Report, have ever been performed on proxy.sh assets, including in the following locations:

Australia 1
Australia 2
Australia 3
Australia 4
Australia 5
Austria 1
Austria 2
Austria 3
Belgium 1
Belgium 2
Boost - Germany - SoftLayer
Boost - Japan - SoftLayer
Boost - Singapore - SoftLayer
Boost - U.S. East - SoftLayer
Boost - U.S. South - SoftLayer
Boost - U.S. West - SoftLayer
Boost - United Kingdom - SoftLayer
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Brazil 2
Bulgaria
Canada 1
Canada 2
Canada 3
Canada 4
Canada 5
Canada 6
Canada 7
Canada 8
Canada 9
Canada 10
Chile
China
Costa Rica
Czech Republic 1
Czech Republic 2
Czech Republic 3
Czech Republic 5
Czech Republic 5
Estonia
Finland
France 1
France 2
France 3
France 4
France 5
France 6
France 7
France 8
France 9
France 10
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France 12
France 13
France 14
France 15
France 16
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Germany 2
Germany 3
Germany 4
Germany 5
Germany 6
Germany 7
Germany 9
Germany 10
Germany 11
Germany 12
Germany 13
Germany 15
Germany 16
Germany 17
Hong Kong 1
Hong Kong 2
Hong Kong 3
Hong Kong 4
Hong Kong 5
Hong Kong 6
Hungary
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Iceland 2
India
Ireland
Isle of Man
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Israel 2
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Italy 2
Italy 3
Japan 1
Japan 2
Japan 3
Japan 4
Kyrgyzstan
Latvia
Lichtenstein
Lithuania
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Luxembourg 2
Luxembourg 3
Mexico
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Moldova 2
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Netherlands 3
Netherlands 4
Netherlands 5
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Netherlands 7
Netherlands 8
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Netherlands 14
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Netherlands 18
Netherlands 19
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Netherlands 21
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Netherlands 23
Netherlands 24
Netherlands 25
Netherlands 26
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New Zealand 2
Norway
Pakistan
Panama
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Poland 3
Poland 4
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Portugal 2
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Romania 2
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Russia 4
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Serbia
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Singapore 5
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Slovakia
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South Korea
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Spain 5
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Sweden 11
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Switzerland 5
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Taiwan
Thailand
Turkey
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U.S. Arizona 3
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U.S. Arizona 5
U.S. Arizona 6
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U.S. California 4
U.S. California 5
U.S. California 6
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U.S. California 23
U.S. California 24
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U.S. Florida 3
U.S. Florida 4
U.S. Florida 5
U.S. Florida 6
U.S. Georgia 1
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U.S. Georgia 3
U.S. Georgia 4
U.S. Georgia 5
U.S. Georgia 6
U.S. Georgia 7
U.S. Georgia 8
U.S. Illinois 1
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U.S. Illinois 3
U.S. Illinois 4
U.S. Illinois 5
U.S. Illinois 6
U.S. Illinois 7
U.S. Illinois 8
U.S. Illinois 10
U.S. Illinois 11
U.S. Illinois 12
U.S. Illinois 13
U.S. Iowa
U.S. Missouri 1
U.S. Missouri 2
U.S. Missouri 3
U.S. Nevada
U.S. New Jersey 1
U.S. New Jersey 2
U.S. New Mexico
U.S. New York 1
U.S. New York 2
U.S. New York 3
U.S. New York 4
U.S. New York 5
U.S. New York 7
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U.S. North Carolina 3
U.S. North Carolina 4
U.S. Oregon
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U.S. Texas 3
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U.S. Texas 10
U.S. Texas 11
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U.S. Utah 3
U.S. Virginia
U.S. Washington 1
U.S. Washington 2
U.S. Washington 3
U.S. Washington 4
U.S. Washington 5
U.S. Washington D.C. 1
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U.S. Washington D.C. 3
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Ukraine 3
Ukraine 4
Ukraine 5
Ukraine 6
Ukraine 7
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United Kingdom 15

The below content is an excerpt from http://www.ft.com/home/uk to certify the date of today.

Top London lawyers charge £1,000 an hour
Fri, 05 Feb 2016 00:01:04 GMT
Fees at biggest UK firms are almost the same as US counterparts, only in sterling
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/29151078-ca73-11e5-a8ef-ea66e967dd44.html?ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Fhome_uk%2Ffeed%2F%2Fproduct

Obama proposes $10 per barrel oil tax
Thu, 04 Feb 2016 23:28:16 GMT
Plan is unlikely to be enacted but could influence Clinton and Sanders to change energy policies
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/88350c22-cb8e-11e5-be0b-b7ece4e953a0.html?ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Fhome_uk%2Ffeed%2F%2Fproduct

Clinton and Sanders clash in fiery debate
Fri, 05 Feb 2016 07:53:06 GMT
Democratic presidential hopefuls drop the pleasant tone as race to the White House takes a combative turn
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/5419f71a-cbcd-11e5-a8ef-ea66e967dd44.html?ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Fhome_uk%2Ffeed%2F%2Fproduct

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You may find the public key of the author of this crypto-message there: http://proxy.sh/sysop.pubkey.txt

NB:

This notice is not 100% bulletproof. It is clearly signed by us, and the idea is that, while we may be forced not to talk about an intervention, we cannot be prevented from actually remaining silent. The contrary would mean that we are forced both not to talk, and, to keep talking. Despite this non-sense, a legal onus exists and lies in whether we could be forced to keep publishing such notice no matter if it is proven false -- in other words, the question is whether we may be forced to state false information for the benefit of the underlying investigation. By deciding to move forward with this notice, Proxy.sh hereby clarifies its standpoint on whether it is ready to challenge the ambiguities of the law for the sake of its customer's privacy.