Huh, this makes me wonder how open sourcing aligns with warrant canaries. See the comments from six years ago [0]. Not that I fully follow it all, but I moved away from SpiderOak when that happened. The name has been tarnished in my mind ever since.

Could someone deduct from the code what went on back then?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17696276