-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA512

Write.as Warrant Canary

Existing and proposed laws, both in the USA and around the world, allow for
secret warrants, searches, and seizures of data.

Some such laws allow for criminal penalties if the warrant, search, or seizure
is revealed to the public.
They disallow the disclosure of events that would directly affect the users of
services such as Write.as.

Write.as and its principals and employees will, in fact, comply with such
warrants and their provisions for secrecy to the extent required by law.

In addition, Write.as will make available, updated quarterly, a "warrant canary" in
the form of a cryptographically signed message containing:
1. A declaration regarding warrants, searches, seizures, and legal compulsion.
2. Three (3) headlines from a major news source to establish and verify the
date.

Note: This scheme is not infallible. Although cryptographically signing the
declaration makes it impossible for a third party to produce arbitrary
declarations, it does not prevent a third party from using force to coerce an
individual to produce false declarations. The news headlines in the message
serve to demonstrate that that update could not have been created prior to
that date. It also shows that a series of these updates were not created in
advance.

It should be noted with significance if this message fails to be updated on a
quarterly basis.


2019-04-01 04:38:35 UTC

No warrants have ever been served to Write.as, or Write.as principals or
employees.

No searches or seizures of any kind have ever been performed on Write.as assets.

(from https://www.washingtonpost.com/)

White House doubles down on threat to close U.S.-Mexico border
Michigan State upsets top-seeded Duke in a thriller to reach the Final Four
In China, the rush to riches sees a region turned to ruins


https://keybase.io/writeas/key.asc

Verify this statement with:
  gpg --verify canary.txt

Ensure you get this output:
  gpg: Good signature from "Write.as (Write.as Team) <hello@write.as>"
  gpg:                 aka "keybase.io/writeas <writeas@keybase.io>"

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
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=NMKU
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----