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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[–] BanMeFromPosting@hexbear.net 6 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

No worries. You might want to set it to update automatically, and then you can turn off the update if it were ever necessary. Or just remove it, if it's very annoying to keep it around.
What would it even mean if the site got "compromised"?

[–] CARCOSA@hexbear.net 16 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

compromised would be a situation similar to what happened to kolektiva.social

Mastodon server Kolektiva.social was compromised when one of the server’s admins had their home raided by the FBI for unrelated charges. All of their electronics, including a backup of the instance database, were seized.

I think automatically doing it would be the worst of the three options:

continuing as is, removing it, or automating it.

[–] BanMeFromPosting@hexbear.net 4 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

I think it's up to you guys on what to do, since you're the ones who have to maintain it. But it seems like it's a hassle. Personally I appreciate it's there, but it's not like I share incriminating info about myself on here, so it's not like anything would happen if the site were to be compromised.
I guess my calls for death of various heads of state might be an issue, but other than that, eh.

[–] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 6 points 18 hours ago

Gotta imagine they're so inundated with adventurism and even pettier crimes that by time they come after posters it's because they're bored. At which point locking you up can have a justification as an afterthought. In other words, the content of your impotent, incredible posts don't matter because if they wanted to lock you up for your beliefs they'd just do it.

[–] MemesAreTheory@hexbear.net 1 points 18 hours ago

Death to America DJT is a fuck one of the hogs will get him eventually