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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[–] Kefla@hexbear.net 11 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 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 23 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Kefla@hexbear.net 6 points 23 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 23 hours ago

I'll forward your idea