"It could also just be a glitch as it appears it is a script that generates the .txt (and fetching external text / news as content)." I don't like this ... If

"It could also just be a glitch as it appears it is a script that generates the .txt (and fetching external text / news as content)." I don't like this ... If you're publishing a warrant canary, updating it should be a manual process that a human is involved in. The whole point of the headlines and the baseball/basketball scores is to prove that the messaged weren't pre-generated and pre-signed in advance. What's the difference between pre-signing a stack of future canaries vs. script-generating them as time goes by ? Either way, you're muddying the negative-statement aspect of it ...