connect_with_me/contact_me_secure.html

2025-10-15

Contact me (secure)

Email: [email protected]

PGP pubkey: horse.pub

Purpose of emailing me: Any purpose is welcome, as long it benefits you or me. If you are sending me leaked documents in particular, I might redact them and transmit them to potential publishers running SecureDrop.

Proof of identity: to do

Warrant canary: As of 2025-10-15, I have not received any legal request involving data or server access to samuelshadrach.com. I will update this paragraph atleast once in three months.

Frequency of checking emails: Atleast once in three months. Last checked 2025-10-15.

Anonymous emails accepted.

Overall security: Medium

Security, digital

• Dedicated PC for this purpose.
• Inbox and keys accessed on tails only.
• 128-bit memorised seedphrase (never used outside of tails) + 128-bit seedphrase in secure physical location (never used outside of tails) + PGP privkey (has left tails). All 3 pieces of info required to decrypt.
• All emails are deleted within 1 month of being read.

Security, physical

• This inbox is only operated from secure physical location. Seedphrase (mentioned above) stored in secure physical location.
• I do not live 24x7 in a secure physical location. I visit secure location to operate the inbox.

Legal

• Do not have significant legal budget
• Likely to cooperate with law enforcement in case of investigation. Discretion used on case by case basis.

Social / psychological

• Operating solo. No dedicated team
• Only operating part-time not full-time
• No social isolation practised
• Keeping secrets solo may be psychologically unsafe

Server host

• Proton may be preserving email content and metadata (timestamps, file sizes, email addresses used, browser fingerprints, etc)
• Proton has previous cooperated with law enforcement in investigations
• Proton has never encountered a significant breach of data or passwords, as of 2025-06

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