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There was a backup site, rsync.net, which sent weekly announcements saying 'we did not get a National Security Letter this week'.
by koenigdavidmj 16y ago
There was a backup site, rsync.net, which sent weekly announcements saying 'we did not get a National Security Letter this week'.
- cyrus_ 16y agoIANAL but I'm pretty sure that if they did get a NSL, they would be legally obligated to continue to signal that they didn't, just as the author of the piece had to lie.
- tlrobinson 16y agoHere's their "warrant canary": http://www.rsync.net/resources/notices/canary.txt http://www.rsync.net/resources/notices/canary.txt Assuming this even legal, I wonder if it would also be legal to have a warrant canary for each user.
- HedgeMage 16y agoI seem to recall that libraries did this a looong time ago and the courts ruled in their favor, but I don't have a link handy and DDG/Google were no help in that regard.
- eli 16y agoYeah, cute idea, but I don't think it would actually work. Failing to post the canary message would cause people to know that you received an NSL. This is the definition of "disclosure." If you can find an instance of such a scheme being tested in court, I'd love to see it though.