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The current Warrant Canary looks like it is a copy of the Phuks canary and has never been updated with the Poal name and it lists a date (Friday, April 27, 2018) from prior to Poal really existing. In my opinion Poal.co does not have a valid warrant canary at this moment.

Considering the situations on those other sites that led us all here, i think updating the canary with a date after the first post on Poal and updating it with the Poal.co name should be a priority.

The current [Warrant Canary](https://poal.co/canary) looks like it is a copy of the Phuks canary and has never been updated with the Poal name and it lists a date (Friday, April 27, 2018) from prior to Poal really existing. In my opinion Poal.co does not have a valid warrant canary at this moment. Considering the situations on those other sites that led us all here, i think updating the canary with a date after the first post on Poal and updating it with the Poal.co name should be a priority.

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[–] • 4 pts (edited )

From all the discussion I've read about canaries recently, here are a couple of my takeaways:
- In order to be effective, a canary should be updated on a schedule.
- Updates should not be made automatically by a bot; at least a button should have to be pressed by the admin.
- We should probably have some inkling of what the canary laws are in the admin's country. Can they compel speech? Can authorities take over the site and refresh the canary themselves? In other words, some explanation of what the canary does and doesn't guarantee might be helpful -- maybe even put it in the canary.

Naturally, all of those things make it harder. And the canary is just one more thing Poal needs to do in a constantly growing list. But it would be nice.

[–] • 3 pts

It’ll be update today.

[–] • 2 pts

I feel stupid but what's a warrant canary.

[–] • 2 pts (edited )

It's a statement that basically says we haven't been served with any sort of legal action that would compromise our users privacy.

The idea is if the feds demanded information about one or more of this site's users, they would probably also issue a gag order that would prevent the admin from disclosing that to us. But they (maybe) wouldn't be able to require the admin to publish a lie. So if the canary disappears, we would essentially have some sort of warning.

Although I've heard a lot of interesting arguments about canaries recently. Many Some people are of the opinion that they're entirely worthless if you have a third-party service like cloudfare that the feds could work through. Others think canaries are only worthwhile if done a certain way.

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Im dont think a canary is 100% in either direction, meaning, i wouldnt put it past a corrupt deep state to just update a canary themselves or pull out bodyparts til the admin does it. But i also think it is worth the attempt, if it does ever not get updated on the schedule, be extremely suspect.

Just don't trust it 100%

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Yeah, I think that's a good way to look at it from an individual user's standpoint. That said, I hope Poal has the best canary it possibly can.

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Hmm... both you and GreenSmoke bring up points I wouldn't have even thought of. I definitely appreciate all the responses. Danke

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https://poal.co/canary this should answer your questions

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Thank you I'll check it out.

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[–] • 1 pt

  • Canary needs to be updated weekly

  • In order to update the canary, BOOBS2 should have to put in a password only he knows

Done.

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Everyone that sees this post please refer to the post on /s/announcements it is being done now and I am taking ideas and opinions