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If they can compel your silence on the original matter, thus necessitating the warrant canary, why can't they compel your silence on being forced to update the

If they can compel your silence on the original matter, thus necessitating the warrant canary, why can't they compel your silence on being forced to update the warrant canary? If warrant canaries were ever a real threat, what's to stop them from simply deciding that the only legal direct or indirect answer to "have you ever received a super duper secret subpoena" is "no comment". The issue is not whether or not the concept of secret access to my data is just, it's whether or not you can actually play silly games with the party literally writing the rules to the game you're trying to play.

Dylan16807 9y ago
> If they can compel your silence on the original matter, thus necessitating the warrant canary, why can't they compel your silence on being forced to update the warrant canary? For a while, but not forever and in every case. > If warrant canaries were ever a real threat, what's to stop them from simply deciding that the only legal direct or indirect answer to "have you ever received a super duper secret subpoena" is "no comment". I think a lot of people would immediately break that law in protest. It would be interesting, to say the least.