Warrant canary on steroids

The warrant canary on steroids for BitBargain.co.uk is now publicly available. Check out this PGP signed document daily to learn more about the frequency and type of requests from authorities.For every date, we leave a remark about which authorities didn’t contact us, what they didn’t request from us and so on.

A quick scroll through this document will show if BitBargain is compromised by a state actor. The warrant canary improves transparency regarding the type and frequency of requests BitBargain receives from authorities and how often these requests are complied with.

The codes used for the daily entries look like this:

POLICE = Contact established by the policeNCA = Contact established by the National Crime AgencyAUTH = Contact established by other authorityFRGN = Contact established by authority of a foreign (non-UK) stateWRNT = Judge signed court order receivedNATSEC = National security referencedINFO = Reasonable amount of information provided on grounds for requestCOMP = A request was complied withINTR = Confirmed intrusion into IT systemsSRCH = Physical search of assetsACTX = Currently active system changeACTI = Currently active access to system or informationRFAC = Request for future accessibility of privileged dataRFKY = Request for encryption key (SSL, GPG or other)RFDB = Request for database, files or raw disk dataRFCS = Request for modification of any parts of the systemRFSA = Request for access to server (directly or via hosting company)RFTX = Request for information about a bitcoin transaction or addressRFNP = Request for other (non-public) information in generalRFCI = Request for user information (or its existence)RFUX = Request for action to be taken in connection with a user

The warrant canary URL is: https://bitbargain.co.uk/warrant-canary.txt

Warrant canaries will be signed with the following PGP key (0x0304FE2C8C47E7A8):

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