---===[ Qubes Canary #18 ]===--- Statements ----------- The Qubes core developers who have digitally signed this file [1] state the following: 1. The date of issue of this canary is January 8, 2019. 2. There have been 45 Qubes Security Bulletins published so far. 3. The Qubes Master Signing Key fingerprint is: 427F 11FD 0FAA 4B08 0123 F01C DDFA 1A3E 3687 9494 4. No warrants have ever been served to us with regard to the Qubes OS Project (e.g. to hand out the private signing keys or to introduce backdoors). 5. We plan to publish the next of these canary statements in the first two weeks of April 2019. Special note should be taken if no new canary is published by that time or if the list of statements changes without plausible explanation. Special announcements ---------------------- Simon Gaiser (aka HW42) joined the Qubes Security Team. More details: https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2018/11/05/qubes-security-team-update/ Disclaimers and notes ---------------------- We would like to remind you that Qubes OS has been designed under the assumption that all relevant infrastructure is permanently compromised. This means that we assume NO trust in any of the servers or services which host or provide any Qubes-related data, in particular, software updates, source code repositories, and Qubes ISO downloads. This canary scheme is not infallible. Although signing the declaration makes it very difficult for a third party to produce arbitrary declarations, it does not prevent them from using force or other means, like blackmail or compromising the signers' laptops, to coerce us to produce false declarations. The news feeds quoted below (Proof of freshness) serves to demonstrate that this canary could not have been created prior to the date stated. It shows that a series of canaries was not created in advance. This declaration is merely a best effort and is provided without any guarantee or warranty. It is not legally binding in any way to anybody. None of the signers should be ever held legally responsible for any of the statements made here. Proof of freshness ------------------- $ date -R -u Tue, 08 Jan 2019 03:18:51 +0000 $ feedstail -1 -n5 -f '{title}' -u https://www.spiegel.de/international/index.rss Avi Loeb on the Mysterious Interstellar Body 'Oumuamua: 'Thinking About Distant Civilizations Isn't Speculative' The Year of Populism: Europe's Right Wing Takes Aim at the EU Women in Startups: 'The Most Successful Teams Are Diverse Teams' Fergus Falls: A Fantastic Town The Claas Relotius Affair: DER SPIEGEL's Reaction to U.S. Ambassador's Criticism $ feedstail -1 -n5 -f '{title}' -u https://rss.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/World.xml Philippines Dispatch: Where 518 Inmates Sleep in Space for 170, and Gangs Hold It Together Migrants’ Despair Is Growing at U.S. Border. So Are Smugglers’ Profits. Poland Cracks Down on Escape Rooms After Diversion Turns Deadly Kim Jong-un, North Korea’s Leader, Visits China Fleeing Saudi Woman, Facing Deportation, Is Allowed to Remain in Thailand $ feedstail -1 -n5 -f '{title}' -u https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/world/rss.xml North Korea's Kim Jong-un visits China's Xi Jinping Ex-Nissan boss says he is wrongly accused Guatemala expels UN-backed anti-corruption commission Yellow vests: France to crack down on unsanctioned protests Kevin Spacey in court to face charges of groping teenager $ feedstail -1 -n5 -f '{title}' -u http://feeds.reuters.com/reuters/worldnews North Korea leader visits China after warning of alternate path to U.S. talks Myanmar's civilian, military leaders meet, vow to "crush" Rakhine rebels Guatemala to shut down U.N. anti-corruption body early Trump, Trudeau agree to press China on detained Canadians: Ottawa White House says Trump position unchanged as Syria withdrawal plans slow $ curl -s 'https://blockchain.info/blocks/?format=json' |\ python3 -c 'import sys, json; print(json.load(sys.stdin)['\''blocks'\''][10]['\''hash'\''])' 000000000000000000073048d01300bb6ca9102dd0641f065cb42d5659412915 Footnotes ---------- [1] This file should be signed in two ways: (1) via detached PGP signatures by each of the signers, distributed together with this canary in the qubes-secpack.git repo, and (2) via digital signatures on the corresponding qubes-secpack.git repo tags. [2] [2] Don't just trust the contents of this file blindly! Verify the digital signatures!