Transparency
Warrant Canary
A warrant canary is a transparency mechanism. We publish this statement regularly to confirm that we have not received any secret or compelled government orders. If this page is not updated, or the statements below are removed, that itself is meaningful information.
- ✓ Katafract LLC has not received any National Security Letters, FISA court orders, or other secret government demands for user data.
- ✓ Katafract LLC has not been served with any gag orders preventing disclosure of surveillance requests.
- ✓ Katafract LLC has not placed any backdoors in our software, services, or infrastructure.
- ✓ Katafract LLC has not been compelled to modify any system to allow surveillance or monitoring of our users.
- ✓ Katafract LLC has not handed over any encryption keys or credentials to any government entity.
- ✓ Katafract LLC has not received any court orders requiring us to log user activity that we do not otherwise log.
How This Works
A warrant canary exploits the legal distinction between compelled speech and silence. We cannot be forced to lie and say we have not received a secret order. But we can choose to stop updating this page — a dead canary signals what we cannot say directly.
This canary is updated at the start of each calendar quarter: January, April, July, October. If a quarterly update does not appear within 30 days of its due date, or if any of the statements above are removed, treat the canary as dead.
What We Can Say Regardless
Because our apps process data locally on your device and our Enclave network services are designed around minimal logging, the practical impact of any compelled disclosure is limited by architecture — not just by policy. We cannot produce records we do not hold.
- iOS apps (ExifArmor, ParkArmor, DocArmor): no server-side component, no user accounts, no data we could hand over.
- Haven DNS: query logs are not retained beyond the current session; no IP-to-query association is stored persistently.
- NetArmor VPN: no persistent connection logs, no traffic inspection, no user-identifiable metadata retained after session end.
Archive
Historical canary statements are committed to our public GitHub repository at github.com/katafractured/website with git history serving as an immutable timestamp. Each quarterly update is a separate commit.
Legal
This canary is a good-faith transparency effort and does not constitute legal advice. The legal theory underlying warrant canaries has not been tested in all jurisdictions. Katafract LLC makes no guarantee that this mechanism will remain viable under future legal developments.