As of August 22, 2018 attorney Joseph Welch has not been the subject of
any search warrants, subpoenas, retention notices, national security
letters or any other legal process that might compromise client
confidentiality or otherwise seek information regarding client
representation, including client identities.
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Warrant Canary February 2018
As of February 2, 2018 attorney Joseph Welch has not been the subject of
any search warrants, subpoenas, retention notices, national security
letters or any other legal process that might compromise client
confidentiality or otherwise seek information regarding client
representation, including client identities.
Warrant Canary December 2017
As of December 1, 2017 attorney Joseph Welch has not been the subject of
any search warrants, subpoenas, retention notices, national security
letters or any other legal process that might compromise client
confidentiality or otherwise seek information regarding client
representation, including client identities.
It’s been awhile since we’ve updated the warrant canary – it’s been a busy year!
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Marijuana use being used to deport legal immigrants
The new administration has started denying visas and removing non-citizens for even legal marijuana use. If you are not a citizen, whether you’re in the country legally or not, any evidence of marijuana use can be grounds for removal.
According to Leafly.com immigrants, visitors, and any non-citizens should:
– Refrain from all cannabis use, including for state-legal medical purposes
– Not seek employment in the cannabis industry
– Remain silent when asked about past cannabis use
– Scrub mobile phones and social media accounts of any mention of cannabis
Read more at www.leafly.com/news/politics/under-trump-legal-cannabis-is-a-deportable-offense
Could TAILS be the most secure operating system?
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Warrant Canary March 2017
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As of March 29, 2017 attorney Joseph Welch has not been the subject of
any search warrants, subpoenas, retention notices, national security
letters or any other legal process that might compromise client
confidentiality or otherwise seek information regarding client
representation, including client identities. Today’s stories –
Stltoday dot com – Four St. Louis police officers have been suspended
without pay amid investigations into allegedly falsified overtime pay
requests, the department said Tuesday.
Riverfronttimes dot com – Magic Citys New EP Bids Farewell to Anne Tkach
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WikiLeaks CIA dump suggests Signal’s encryption safe
There’s been a lot of concern in the past few days about Signal being compromised in light of the WikiLeaps CIA dump, but the bottom line is that any compromise is likely within your phone itself and has nothing to do with your secure messaging app, the encryption it uses, or the messaging company’s servers.
From the New York Times:
Neither Signal nor WhatsApp, for example, appears by name in any of the alleged C.I.A. files in the cache. (Using automated tools to search the whole database, as security researchers subsequently did, turned up no hits.) More important, the hacking methods described in the documents do not, in fact, include the ability to bypass such encrypted apps — at least not in the sense of “bypass” that had seemed so alarming. Indeed, if anything, the C.I.A. documents in the cache confirm the strength of encryption technologies…
In other words, the cache reminds us that if your phone is hacked, the Signal or WhatsApp messages on it are not secure. This should not come as a surprise. If an intelligence agency, or a nosy sibling, can get you to install, say, a “key logger” on your phone, either one can bypass the encrypted communication app. But so can someone looking over your shoulder while you use your phone. That is about the vulnerability of your device. It has nothing to do with the security of the apps.
New Yorks Times – The Truth About the WikiLeaks C.I.A. Cache
Warrant Canary Feb2017
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As of February 7, 2017 attorney Joseph Welch has not been the subject of
any search warrants, subpoenas, retention notices, national security
letters or any other legal process that might compromise client
confidentiality or otherwise seek information regarding client
representation, including client identities. Today’s headlines:
Stltoday dot com – Human skull found in state park in Franklin County
Riverfronttimes dot com – Jason Kander Launches Let America Vote to
Fight Voter Suppression
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Jail Phone Recordings Hacked
One of the most important things to remember if you or a loved one is locked up in jail or prison is that every phone call is recorded and will be used against you.
Prosecuting attorneys and cops have carte blanche access to these recorded calls and prosecutors have been known to stay up late at night in the days before trial listening to every call a defendant has made in order to find incriminating statements.
Often people will try to talk in code or otherwise obscure what they’re saying, but the cops always figure out what you really mean, and the prosecutor can easily explain it to the jury.
Attorney client communications are supposed to be confidential and shouldn’t be recorded, but in 2015 a massive hack of Securus resulted in the discovery of thousands of supposedly-confidential attorney client calls in with all of the other ones:
The ability to talk to your criminal defense lawyer without the fear of being eavesdropped on or recorded is one of your fundamental rights. Call or text Joe Welch securely using Signal.