I'm honestly surprised they had to make a law against it. It has always seemed to me that warrant canaries would not survive their first contact with the judici

I'm honestly surprised they had to make a law against it. It has always seemed to me that warrant canaries would not survive their first contact with the judicial system; it's a clear attempt to circumvent the intent of the law through a technical loophole. Judges aren't stupid and they tend to not look very kindly on such legal "hacks". (Related: http://xkcd.com/1494/ http://xkcd.com/1494/)