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The first Warrant Canary just turned 15 years old:

https://twitter.com/rsyncnet/status/1387090538273206274

It will be updated tomorrow morning, just like every Monday morning since April 2006.

Warrant canaries are unreliable. Apple, for example, stopped issuing warrant canaries in Sept. 2014 [1], but was added to the NSA's PRISM program almost 2 years earlier, in Oct. 2012 [2].

But I suppose a warrant canary by nature requires companies to be honest. There's not much you can do if the company is being deceptive with a vaguely phrased canary.

[1]: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/09/no-apple-probabl...

[2]: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/06/new-leak-feds-ca...

I have it on good authority that this one will continue...

What will you do if the government coerces you into falsely renewing your warrant canary?

I believe his defense against this is having three locations around the world that all need sign off for a canary to be published.

So there is no „the government“.

At least we would eventually learn that the government can do that, and fight it in court.

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