You deserve transparency

We added a canary statement to One Final Message today.

If you're not familiar with the term: a canary statement is a transparency tool where a company regularly publishes a dated declaration that it has not received any secret government orders. Certain legal requests - like National Security Letters - prohibit a company from telling you they received one. A canary works around that. If the statement stops being updated or disappears, that silence is the signal.

The concept comes from coal miners carrying canaries underground. If the bird went quiet, something was wrong.

Most companies that publish canary statements are VPN providers or cloud storage platforms. We think a service that holds your most personal messages - words meant for the people closest to you, delivered only when you can no longer deliver them yourself - deserves at least the same standard of transparency.

Our canary covers six commitments, updated quarterly: no secret orders received, no compelled disclosure of your messages, no backdoors added, no keys handed over, no unauthorized access to stored messages, and full operational control maintained.

You can read the full statement at onefinalmessage.com/canary and a plain-text version at onefinalmessage.com/canary.txt.

Your messages are a privilege to hold. We intend to be transparent about how we hold them.