Some smart librarians figured out a way to get around FBI gag orders through an interesting technicality:
Taking cue from the librarians, we’ve updated Espionage’s homepage with the the following blurb:
Viewing the source for Espionage’s homepage reveals a signed section that explains the types of changes that can and cannot be made to the text itself:
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<h3>AES-256 Bit Encryption + Scrypt</h3>
<p>Espionage uses powerful <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Encryption_Standard" target="_blank">AES-256 encryption</a>
to protect your files and the super-computer defying <a href="http://www.tarsnap.com/scrypt.html" target="_blank">scrypt</a>
to protect your passwords (instead of relying on OS X's weak keychain).
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We <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/sep/09/nsa-sabotage-dead-mans-switch" target="_blank">have not placed any backdoors</a>
into our software and
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/sep/09/nsa-sabotage-dead-mans-switch" target="_blank">have not received any requests</a>
for doing so.
Pay <a href="http://www.librarian.net/technicality.html" target="_blank">close attention</a> to <b>any</b> modications to the previous sentence,
<b>and</b> verify the signature of this "watch zone" by viewing the <a onClick='window.location="view-source:" + window.location.href' target="_blank">page source</a>.
Our public GPG key can be found using this ID: A884B988
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