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I've been wondering this for a while now, can I set up a Twitter account that automatically tweets ever day "MatteoTom has never received a NSL/a gag order", an

I've been wondering this for a while now, can I set up a Twitter account that automatically tweets ever day "MatteoTom has never received a NSL/a gag order", and if I ever do receive one, stop sending the tweets? Can the FBI/DOJ/whoever require me (or Twitter) to continue to send out the tweets? Or is it somehow illegal for me to set up such an account in the first place?

java-man 12y ago
You don't get it. THEY are unconstrained by law.
- matteotom 12y ago
  I'm not sure I understand what you're saying. The idea is that I would confirm that (NSLs received >= 1) by not saying that (NSLs received == 0).
  - java-man 12y ago
    The programmer's logic does not apply here. When you lie, you go to jail or worse. When they lie, they get promoted.
- gomerclaus 12y ago
  YOU don't get it. He's not talking about their actions; he's talking about his own. Also, yes, they are constrained by law. That's how we're able to take the government to court.
mikebike 12y ago
That's called a warrant canary: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/04/warrant-canary-faq https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/04/warrant-canary-faq
noonespecial 12y ago
I think you'll find that whatever it is that you are doing (or not doing) that they find objectionable will be some crime or another. The courts around here are becoming somewhat... marsupial.
jacquesm 12y ago
There is a bug in your implementation. If the tweet goes out automatically every day instead of sending you a gag order they could simply jail you. Your tweets will continue to go out just fine.
pessimizer 12y ago
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/10/07/dea-created-a-fake-facebook-profile-in-this-womans-name-using-seized-pics-then-impersonated-her/ http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/10/07... "At first glance, the Facebook profile is the perfect deception. Purportedly belonging to brown-haired woman named Sondra Prince, it shows her driving a car, splayed across a white BMW, hugging two young children. If someone were to stumble across the profile, which still exists, there would be little way for them to know the truth: The profile is a fake. "It was created surreptitiously by a Drug Enforcement Administration agent, who seized Prince’s phone in July 2010 after arresting her, mined it for photographs, then used those pictures to forge a fraudulent profile which allowed authorities to impersonate Prince in an investigation into an alleged New York drug ring."

java-man 12y ago

You don't get it. THEY are unconstrained by law.

matteotom 12y ago
I'm not sure I understand what you're saying. The idea is that I would confirm that (NSLs received >= 1) by not saying that (NSLs received == 0).
- java-man 12y ago
  The programmer's logic does not apply here. When you lie, you go to jail or worse. When they lie, they get promoted.
gomerclaus 12y ago
YOU don't get it. He's not talking about their actions; he's talking about his own. Also, yes, they are constrained by law. That's how we're able to take the government to court.

mikebike 12y ago

That's called a warrant canary: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/04/warrant-canary-faq https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/04/warrant-canary-faq

noonespecial 12y ago

I think you'll find that whatever it is that you are doing (or not doing) that they find objectionable will be some crime or another. The courts around here are becoming somewhat... marsupial.

jacquesm 12y ago

There is a bug in your implementation. If the tweet goes out automatically every day instead of sending you a gag order they could simply jail you. Your tweets will continue to go out just fine.

pessimizer 12y ago

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/10/07/dea-created-a-fake-facebook-profile-in-this-womans-name-using-seized-pics-then-impersonated-her/ http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/10/07... "At first glance, the Facebook profile is the perfect deception. Purportedly belonging to brown-haired woman named Sondra Prince, it shows her driving a car, splayed across a white BMW, hugging two young children. If someone were to stumble across the profile, which still exists, there would be little way for them to know the truth: The profile is a fake. "It was created surreptitiously by a Drug Enforcement Administration agent, who seized Prince’s phone in July 2010 after arresting her, mined it for photographs, then used those pictures to forge a fraudulent profile which allowed authorities to impersonate Prince in an investigation into an alleged New York drug ring."