> From: Ryan DeShone [mailto:r...@deshone.net] > > As someone else has mentioned, the (untested) hypothesis behind the > warrant canary is that while the government can prevent you from > disclosing something, they cannot force you to lie. If the canary ever > disappears (or isn't updated) it is supposed to be taken as a signal > that they got a request and cannot disclose it.
Yes, that's the point. The canary that just says "Everything's fine" does *not* say that they haven't gotten a national security letter (NSL) and would not change over time, even if they did. If you come from the base assumption that they handed over Snowden data at the same time LavaBit was imploding, the "Everything's fine" canary doesn't even attempt to dispel that belief. _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
