Security Statement AKA Warrant Canary

Last Updated: Nov 8th, 2025

This warrant canary will be updated periodically. Previous versions can be viewed in the page revisions.

We have not placed any backdoors into our software and have not received any requests for doing so.

Since our launch in July 2020, we have received 0 (zero) government requests for information and complied with 0 (zero) government requests for information.

No warrants have ever been served to hexbear.net, or hexbear.net contributors in regards to hexbear.net.

No searches or seizures of any kind have ever been performed on hexbear.net assets.

Pay close attention to any modifications to the previous paragraph between updates to this statement.

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[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 8 points 14 hours ago (4 children)

I just had food poisoning, my own goose is pretty cooked rn and it isnt very fun right now that i can barely stomach white bread and bananas.. Anyways please stop making assumptions on the fly that the site's been compromised just because we forget to update the thing. It's all manual input and one of the lower items in priority that's supposed to be updated monthly, manually. Don't go into a panic again when we most likely forget next month, or the month after that, or thereon. Just ask an admin to update the thing.

[–] Blakey@hexbear.net 8 points 11 hours ago

Anyways please stop making assumptions on the fly that the site's been compromised just because we forget to update the thing.

... that's literally what a warrant canary is. Sorry to hear you haven't been well, and it's good to know that's all that's happening, but you're literally complaining that it's functioning as intended.

[–] Kefla@hexbear.net 10 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

The entire point of a warrant canary is that we have to make assumptions because legally you won't be allowed to communicate honestly with us. If you just "forget" to update the warrant canary repeatedly, you'd be better off removing it entirely rather than repeatedly sending an unintended message.

Like you're pretty much hitting the big red button that says "ALARM: THE SITE IS COMPROMISED" and then getting snippy at people for "assuming" the site is compromised

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

And if it's removed there'll be another post talking about the site being compromised.

[–] Kefla@hexbear.net 5 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

So? You're going to be dealing with it every month the way it's going, so if it's really so inconvenient to you when you basically tell your users that the site is compromised and they take it seriously, just remove the canary, take the hit once, and be done with it.

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 2 points 13 hours ago

I'll forward your idea

[–] BanMeFromPosting@hexbear.net 6 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

But you had already been asked a month ago, and did nothing. That's why I got worried and thought people should be aware.
That's the entire point of the warrant canary. Don't call it "freaking out and spreading panic" when I react to it functioning as intended. Alarmism it is not.

Consider making an announcement about being annoyed about the warrant canary say you're going to take it down, if it ticks you off so much. It's not really a big deal to me, but I know some people care about it.

[–] BanMeFromPosting@hexbear.net 1 points 13 hours ago

Also my condolences about your food poisoning, that can be tough. Hope you are recovering well.