Reddit removed NSL canary from 2015 Transparency Report

Re:Reddit removed NSL canary from 2015 Transparency Report by awqrre on Thursday March 31, 2016 @08:26PM (#11401678)

I personally would not be doing anything differently but that is besides the point... they should not be able to get that data without a warrant. So I guess the value of it would be that you are now aware of something else that the government is doing that they should not be doing...

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Re:Reddit removed NSL canary from 2015 Transparency Report by dfc on Thursday March 31, 2016 @09:31PM (#11401948)

I apologize if I am missing something in your answer but "NSLs are bad, mmkay?" does not seem to be very responsive. We knew about NSLs before warrant canaries. If that is the only utility they provide it seems like they are not very useful to me.

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Re:Reddit removed NSL canary from 2015 Transparency Report by awqrre on Friday April 01, 2016 @10:23AM (#11404944)

I wish that they would be more specific in their canary and perhaps have multiple ones... for examples:

1. we were not asked to provide private post

2. we were not asked to provide metadata like IP addresses

3. we were not asked to backdoor our website

4. we were not asked to shadowban users

5. maybe even one canary per user, to know exactly who is affected

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Re:Reddit removed NSL canary from 2015 Transparency Report by mirimir on Thursday March 31, 2016 @11:16PM (#11402317)

I entirely agree. It's foolish to believe that "private subreddits" and "private messages" are private, in any meaningful sense.

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