But the mysterious flight of the reddit bird raises several important questions.įirst, what sort of information might the government be seeking from reddit through a national security subpoena?īecause reddit is a public bulletin board, it may seem a bit strange that a secret government request would land there at all.
Indeed, that is exactly what a warrant canary is supposed to do: alert the public that a government request for information has been made to a particular provider. Now, though, it is the disappearance of reddit’s canary - in the company’s new transparency report, issued last week, covering law enforcement requests made during 2015 - that is getting attention from the site’s users and the broader public. Many other technology companies followed suit. At the time the canary was published, it drew praisefrom EFF and garnered much attention in (e.g., here and here) the technology press. Thus, reddit set up a warrant canary that would expire upon the receipt of any legal process related to national security. If we ever receive such a request, we would seek to let the public know it existed. Once a service provider does receive legal process, the speech prohibition goes into place, and the canary statement is removed,” thereby informing the public that the process has been received.Īs of January 29, 2015, reddit has never received a National Security Letter, an order under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or any other classified request for user information. But reddit’s report was not just an informational document - it was a statement of commitment, a promise to its users that the company would defend and protect its users’ privacy to the maximum extent possible.Ī critical aspect of that promise was a legally experimental, categorical statement known as a “warrant canary.” A warrant canary, as the Electronic Frontier Foundation explains, “is a colloquial term for a regularly published statement that a service provider has not received legal process that it would be prohibited from saying it had received. Compared to thousands of requests listed in the similar reports issued by tech giants like Google and Facebook, the total number of requests reported by reddit was tiny: just 55 in total. You could also try Mailspring, it's cross platform, has a lot of customization options, and looks stunning.Sometimes, saying nothing says quite a lot.Īt the end of January 2015, the online bulletin board reddit issued a “transparency report” that informed its users, and the broader public, about the law enforcement requests for user data that the site’s operators had received over the course of the preceding year. I’ve switched through a bunch but my favorite is Mailspring.Īnnoyed at the Outlook Change? Miss Gmail already? I just found out that Mailspring (the rebranded Nylas) was re-opensourced so you could check that out. I remembered using Nylas email until it went closed source.
Gnome comes with the abomination that is Geary and that thing is way too under powered. I know for me there is one though it is not specifically "core" but kind of is in a way when you are using a desktop.namely email of all things.
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