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There are cases in which you can't even confirm the existence of a gag order. I can not believe it's constitutional... but they do it.

• SilasX 13y ago
  What about the strategy you hear about of getting around this? Where they say "we're not under a gag order" (or whatever) each day until they are, until they go under a gag order, at which point it reveals they are. Now, I'm not so naive to think that if someone tried this, the government and courts would just say "Herp, derp, you sure outfoxed us there!" But has that strategy ever been tested in court?
  • ttrreeww 13y ago
    I'd imaging it'd get you a free one way ticket to Cuba, not charged.
  • bigiain 13y ago
    Rsync.net does this: http://www.rsync.net/resources/notices/canary.txt http://www.rsync.net/resources/notices/canary.txt And they note: This scheme is not infallible. Although signing the declaration makes it impossible for a third party to produce arbitrary declarations, it does not prevent them from using force to coerce rsync.net to produce false declarations. The news clip in the signed message serves to demonstrate that that update could not have been created prior to that date. It shows that a series of these updates were not created in advance and posted on this page.