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warrant canary assumes the maintainer is under coercion. But if the maintainer is untrustworthy, their warrant canary also won't be trustworthy, since it's triv

by chii 3y ago

warrant canary assumes the maintainer is under coercion. But if the maintainer is untrustworthy, their warrant canary also won't be trustworthy, since it's trivial for the "sale" and the new maintainers to continue the existing warrant canary as though nothing has happened.

SkyBelow 3y ago
Aren't these also useless even for their original reason as they can just be given a demand from the legal system to keep updating the canary as if nothing happened?
- chii 3y ago
  The legal theory is that the law cannot compel you to lie. Of course, this is untested.