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throwaway88643··on Cloudflare expands its government warrant canaries
It’s like a dead-man switch. You can also set it so every few hours, you have to enter in a password to keep it up.

If you are held for questioning, most likely you won’t have access to a device to update it.

throwaway88643··on Cloudflare expands its government warrant canaries
Surely if the criminal is an assassin, the judge wouldn’t order them to continue taking contracts for “the greater goood.”
throwaway88643··on Cloudflare expands its government warrant canaries
Didn’t Snowden reveal that government agencies routinely break the law?
throwaway88643··on Cloudflare expands its government warrant canaries
I’m guessing this depends on the judge? I was in traffic court and one of the lawyers argued that the statute did not explicitly say what his client did was illegal.

I don’t recall what it was, but he read the statute and explained the technicality and the judge agreed with him.