Simplepingu.com Warrant Canary List

Simple Pingu 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.
We at Simple Pingu believe this is stupid. 

Nonetheless, Simple Pingu believe a Warrant Canary is a valuable addition, in order to provide the most transparent operation as possible. Indeed, between the time we are served with a legal request that would compromise our customers' privacy and the wellbeing of our ethical beliefs, 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.

To help tackle this problem Simple Pingu will produce, frequently, a "warrant canary" in the form of a cryptographically signed message containing the following:

- A declaration of honour, provided by one of the following main members of our team, Ben Dover, or Saul R, who certifies that, to the date of publication, no warrants, searches or seizures that have not been reported in our Transparency Report, have taken place

- A list of all services that have not been affected

- A copy of everything on this page before the line “Below is a list of all our Warrant Canaries;”

- An excerpt of headlines from https://www.nytimes.com/, https://www.abc.net.au/, https://www.bbc.com/, https://www.telegraph.co.uk/, a bunch of news sources, to prove that the update could not have been created prior to the listed date.

As has been pointed out before, special note should be taken if these messages ever cease being updated or are removed from this page or any other page.

Individual Warrant Canaries will be placed into their own file. This file will be named in the following format “Simple Pingu Warrant Canary – [Issues persons name] – [Date].txt”

Below is a list of all our Warrant Canaries;