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Maybe they are trying to subtly tell us that they have had an NSL or have been forced to put in a backdoor by the NSA. Warrant canary? Thpugh more than likely
by junto 13y ago
Maybe they are trying to subtly tell us that they have had an NSL or have been forced to put in a backdoor by the NSA. Warrant canary?
Thpugh more than likely it was just a poor choice of name!
- yurisagalov 13y agoWe're actually just borrowing from the phrase "canary in the coal mine" -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_sentinel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_sentinel Google Chrome uses a similar convention (http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/browser/canary.html http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/browser/canary.html), as do many other companies when talking about unstable/nightly/etc. builds (simply google 'canary build' to verify :)
- steveklabnik 13y agoEmber also uses the 'canary' nomenclature.