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Those canary things seem so 2018. In 2021 the most powerful canary statement should be "Don't trust us. Seriously, treat us as an adversary. We still want you
by istingray 5y ago
Those canary things seem so 2018.
In 2021 the most powerful canary statement should be "Don't trust us. Seriously, treat us as an adversary. We still want you to be our customer of course, but here's how we really recommend you use our service, Tor, semi-anonymous payments, etc. In God we trust, for everyone else use math."
- bigiain 5y agoAnybody serious has moved from "perimeter security" to "zero trust" in network architecture. We need to treat more of the real world the same way.
- istingray 5y agoAny new tools developed with that in mind for us mortals? Would love to sign up for some Tor-first services. So far the best we've got are Tor services that mirror public ones.
- sodality2 5y agoThat canary statement would kill their userbase. Seriously, who expects a company to admit the value they provide is not much? They expect the more savvy users (ie, those who need the privacy, typically) to understand basic OPSEC. I admit that the marketing is bad, I do not agree with it, and I do not tolerate it in terms of my own OPSEC. But, there's just no way they would just admit they provide hardly any value besides, in a VPN's example, being a tube to another place, and just another tube with ends that can be stopped.
- jnsaff2 5y agoNot having that canary may LITERALLY kill some of their users. If they have some decency they should own up to the truth and if they end up being out of business they will have a lot of goodwill for their next business.
- sodality2 5y agoAnd I 100% agree that they should. I'm just saying there's an incredibly slim chance they will. From a business perspective, which is the perspective they always take, it makes no sense.