Reddit canary dead

If they have one account, assume they have all of them.

Edit to be less vague:

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/4cqyia/for_your_reading_pleasure_our_2015_transparency/

WTF is a canary? https://canarywatch.org/faq.html

ELI5: Reddit was served with one of those crazy FISA court subpoenas that they can't talk about. For national security they had to do something shady for the US Government.

But Reddit are some sneaky fuckers. They didn't violate the gag order. They just removed the "Hey, we never got one of those super secret subpeonas" statement from the transparency report they released today.

Like in the coal mines. Can't hear the canary singing down here? GTFO, we're all going to die.


Comments


[207 Points] MT_Merchant_Mangler:

Wait a minute...do these markets actually exist? I thought this sub was pure satire.


[82 Points] None:

Hahahaha, see I trolled all of you so hard. I knew this was going to happen one day. I always knew you filthy druggies would have your day of reckoning. I have never done drugs in my life. I have never bought drugs. I said all of that shit to troll you all, but you guilty mofos are in for it. I repeat, I have never bought or consumed drugs. This is a troll account.


[84 Points] FatherOfAWhore:

I have never participated in any dark market, nor have I participated on this sub more than once. I subscribe to it because of the interesting posts, pure and simple.

I make terrible comments and have outlandish opinions, but attempt to make it clear I err on the side of a joke.

What does this mean for someone like me?


[29 Points] None:

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[15 Points] otistoole:

Anyone who ever assumed otherwise is dumb.


[12 Points] None:

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[8 Points] madisonrebel:

And now every law enforcement agency in the country is going to descend on everyone who ever used a dark net market and produce their tor logs, reddit posts, darknet market transaction records, shipping details, and all the other shit that would require hundreds or thousands of hours of work for each dickhead that ever ordered something illegal, just to charge them with relatively minor offenses that a lot of judges will throw out either because they don't understand the nature of the crime, or because they don't want the case cluttering up their docket.

Kay.


[6 Points] None:

reddit isnt to be trusted anyway.


[4 Points] StiffyAllDay:

What?


[5 Points] goodgodparanoia:

yes, the feds have nothing better to do than get warrants for thousands upon thousands of user names and ip addresses...for what?

theres probable specific vendors theyve been eyeballing for awhile and they just serve the warrant for all of them at once to cut down on a lot of time money and effort. Unless youre a big timer the feds give no fucks. They do love them some fucking money though, so if youre making a bunch of that by their math- well their probably out to get you.

If youre dumb enough to be one of those people and logged in here with your home ip address, well then thats natural selection really. It aint hard to have a VPN auto connect at boot.

dont go nuking belize from orbit and shit just yet


[3 Points] MT_Merchant_Mangler:

It's too bad they don't list the subs that the requests were made for.


[3 Points] XannyLannister:

Where was the canary?


[3 Points] member_member5thNov:

hey man I only ever post here to tell meth enthusiasts to stop death grip jerking off and direct them to helpful dan savage articles.

and if our friends in the three letter agencies can benefit from that advice as well, well, it'd be goddamn unpatriotic of me not to tell them to stop grabbing their dicks so hard so often.


[2 Points] UDGHT:

Titanic Theme Anyone


[2 Points] omarlittle68:

Ahhh, Jimmy Carter and his Blesséd FISA courts.


[2 Points] Vendor_Casino-Royale:

And I never picked cotton..Like my Mother did, and my brother did and my sister did and my daddy died young...workin in a coal mine.


[2 Points] hopswage:

Ehh, words are cheap. We're all free to speak our minds, so words alone ought not cause any harm. If they want to build a case against anyone on Reddit, they'll cherry-pick the shit out of those accounts and paint the owners as complete monsters once it gets to court.

Odds are, if it's a national security canary, nobody on this sub has any more to worry about. Probably just them spooks chasin' them Terry Wrists.

But, just to satisfy my paranoia: I write crappy short stories that get read in hipster creative writing circles. All my subs amount to research (nothing more and nothing less), and anything I've ever written is to be considered practice and not truth.


[2 Points] InquisitiveNoob:

A little lost as to what this means...


[2 Points] Lucid_Enemy:

Tbh if little old me killed the canary or a single account killed it... I'd just laugh


[2 Points] Tawse:

Are... are you calling from a cell phone?


[2 Points] back2ballin:

i thought this was a lebanese mountain biking forum. why are police involved?


[1 Points] bobbiggs69:

Informative post. Thanks.


[1 Points] idontdodrugstheydome:

What the fuck are you bitches babbling about? They probably used alpha bay to imbezzle the budget for arresting everyone. The irony.


[1 Points] deadb1rds:

What does this mean?

What time periods were effected?


[1 Points] deedlede2222:

Lol well it's good I've never actually done anything.

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[1 Points] adeadhead:

The canary has been dead for 14 months. You shouldn't need a transparency report for people to spell it out for you.


[1 Points] stickykitty1:

I have always had to make the assumption that Reddit was compromised. This is a good reminder of that.


[1 Points] eqleriq:

The canary concept is about as legally sound as selling a pen on eBay that comes with a free dvd bootleg of the next Paul blart movie or a you must be 18 splash screen disclaimer


[1 Points] None:

you know what, i finally looked at the transparency report link. reddit is under a fucking gag order. i think that's creepy and fucked up.


[1 Points] 58778:

tldr? or spanish link those words are big.


[1 Points] None:

Man, you all take this role-playing stuff pretty dang seriously.


[1 Points] None:

Whew...thank drugness I'm still alive. For a second, I thought they were about to gas my house while I was asleep.


[0 Points] Devoid_:

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck