diff --git a/2021/07/2021-07-01.txt.asc b/2021/07/2021-07-01.txt.asc new file mode 100644 index 0000000..37b5c9b --- /dev/null +++ b/2021/07/2021-07-01.txt.asc @@ -0,0 +1,102 @@ +-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- +Hash: SHA256 + +July 1st, 2021 + +Warrant Canary covering the Month of June, 2021 + +This is the second Warrant Canary for 1776 Solutions, LLC, Lolcow LLC, and +Mad at the Internet, LLC. + +An explanation for what a Warrant Canary is can be found on the EFF: +https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/04/warrant-canary-faq + +National Security Letters +1776: 0 +Kiwi: 0 +MATI: 0 + +Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court +1776: 0 +Kiwi: 0 +MATI: 0 + +Gag orders under 18 USC 2705(b) +1776: 0 +Kiwi: 0 +MATI: 0 + +The Kiwi Farms has received three letters from Russia's ROSKOMNADZOR further +insisting the deletion of memes depicting Hitler dressed as Santa. + +Flokinet asked us to move the domain to another registrar. + was moved to a Russian registrar. + was moved to a Chinese registrar, the same 8kun uses. + was moved to a Hong Kong registrar, the same 2ch uses. + +The Kiwi Farms was targeted by a denial of service attack utilizing bandwidth +saturation, TCP packets designed to stress the router, and service-level +attacks targeting specific pages. We are currently mitigating it through a +combination of protections. + +Sister services to the forum (Matrix, Fediverse, etc) are most effected as +their networks are more interactive and harder to secure. + +Long-term solutions to this issue involve: +1. Purchasing a bigger upstream link and new hardware. +2. Setting up a second device in a second datacenter in Asia for redundancy. + +These are not inexpensive options but they will be needed. + + +Personal aside: +Please stop trying to censor the Internet. You are begging for a future where +all online communication in the United States is regulated by a handful of +megacorporations with all meaningful decisions taking place behind closed doors +and having no appeals process. + +"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary +Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." - Benjamin Franklin + +We will lose everything if we continue down this path. Our world is scary, +and with machine learning we are fast approaching an environment where all +online consumption is expediently monitored and judged by unthinking, unfeeling +machines designed for the sole purpose of generating assholes like Jeff Bezos +an unfathomable amount of money. + +If you believe that shutting down legal websites allowing people to say what +they want is a way to safeguard against new censorship ("sites like this +are why we can't have nice things"), you are falling prey to a contradictory +logic where the only way to avoid censorship is to impose censorship on self. + +If you're not being censored because you don't say censored things, then is a +problem? Yes! This is how people behaved in East Germany and under Stalin. +People were even afraid to think bad thoughts, on the off chance that those +thoughts might manifest into criminal speech. + +The Supreme Court will likely uphold the first amendment for decades to come, +which is why the only way for the System to impose censorship right now is to +consolidate power in private industries that work nice with the government +(look at how all these same companies have ongoing government contracts). +In doing so, they can restrict or promote certain information to influence +people and make regulatory changes which enforce their power more likely to +happen. + +This is a trap. Don't step in it. +-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- + +iQJIBAEBCAAyFiEEHUQQOhbWG43xDEqf7bQdOTz575AFAmDdp94UHGxlZ2FsQGtp +d2lmYXJtcy5uZXQACgkQ7bQdOTz575AAVg//S9CgyNiEnxdAN/QAKIlCUIFFlMoc +QstY2ljMj4yHbsctZ/OMXJdZLmsmvnjhCM8o4fkesc53SJcfHXIF2tBsNuoj6rcg +a3a2ySa+hrJs6SZvM9ozxJNSu+vnlRbCZsCSNtbGSssfg29ysgKKpiq9WmjvPFMp ++PvrYzu/VlyIksYAoXe7PBS5xwAOuKtLA3j3V16ii7MaFW9mOVoQY1WURMVan5Rm +My/L5n5Cjcgy6Yk7ZhVfi+yhLbobDAHsqOuHRYRkV2ThWAR09BoA/FwNE73eEdgH +l0kMb2lt27aMBX7YNnd0ve7qjir8sA48xhoPhjaVsCB7809mQPVN9PDdpI3iX016 +BvfiKtPBDeIiKlD6I/ljMBokfyO6CP9R+gWNOGvzOUi1ev0hRZa5hYnu8YdcJ8KB +McbplrOOk07Y38LU8f8E0vdSVa9pIsSP5mZiK3OknDI9qRtpNjjRbvSm5JYOzsSd +3OsAy9+MtvJE9tGGjnEsvWTK1eW83SZVfYq6MaE6L7ksWd8vzuAkyDRf0yqNoIZf +5xtFxCPAnwdEmbCi0IXM26OCtMoJwQ4R70CT+IKxfujar5CzMuWcRRo7MMmtPQW9 +QIN4tOIM0id/SlPwJ8VG1kict3hSTrli5M/0f32DHxpzBfRkHrk6MLHMIbZBtleX +7D5czcod4/BmDgA= +=4Uqu +-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----