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But I didnt even take a file offline. I just forgot to update it.
by 6nf 8y ago
But I didnt even take a file offline. I just forgot to update it.
- onetimemanytime 8y agoSo you've updated it 45 times and the time you "forgot" to update coincided with the time you got the secret order?
- sudhirj 8y agoIsn’t there a free speech aspect to canaries? Can the court force someone to publicly tell an explicit lie?
- martin1975 8y agoonly if you're covert working for 3 lettered agencies can you lie and get away with it. Though they'd get you out some other way to avoid blowing your cover.
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- onetimemanytime 8y agoI would argue that you brought yourself in this mess. The only valid reason for having a canary is to evade the requirements of the law, so you can't complain. It's an argument, I'm no fan of secret orders or the government telling you to lie or keep quiet.
- Dylan16807 8y agoFundamental rights generally override "you got yourself into this mess", don't they?
- coldtea 8y agoWell, the right to freedom of movement can be taken away if you've taken yourself into a mess that ends you in prison (and in tens of other cases for that matter).
- danso 8y agoFundamental rights can be in conflict with each other. It's not uncommon for a judge to impose gag orders, which ostensibly protects a fair trial, but infringes on a person's rights to talk about a case in public.
- zaarn 8y agoA NSL or similar already prevents you from saying something and limits your free speech. The court will, either way, not be impressed by someone communicating that they got a warrant by not communicating in a previously arranged manner (this is basically communicating in a code language).
- yardstick 8y agoI’d expect a court to find against this in the same way it would find against someone communicating the information in a foreign language. It’s the intent and how you use the file that matters to them.
- cyphar 8y agoThe sticking point is whether you can be compelled to proactively lie by an NSL (when an NSL is actually a gag order, preventing you from talking about NSLs), given freedom-of-speech in the US. But quite a few people agree with you that courts probably wouldn't care about this level of pedantry[1]. [1]: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/03/australia_outla.html https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/03/australia_out...