GitHub's 2015 Transparency Report

Re:GitHub's 2015 Transparency Report by petercooper on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @03:05PM (#11996557)

How does that work then? If I were American (I'm not) is it illegal for me to simply say or publish the sentence "I have received no National Security Orders"?

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Re:GitHub's 2015 Transparency Report by Bartweiss on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @03:08PM (#11996582)

Presumably not. But it is illegal for you to say "I have received one National Security Order this year".

Hence warrant canaries: they basically consist of creating a strong expectation of a (permitted) negative statement, such that its absence will be noticed. So far it's believed that you can't be compelled to maintain a no-longer-accurate canary against your will.

edit: Wait, I see what you're referring to. [citation needed], because as far as I know warrant canaries remain legal.

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Re:GitHub's 2015 Transparency Report by froh42 on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @03:46PM (#11996916)

Holy shit. People in the land of the free discussing what they are legally allowed to say. Such tricks sound like stories from Soviet Russia that still linger around.

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Re:GitHub's 2015 Transparency Report by lettergram on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @04:23PM (#11997222)

"only for national security" just like Russia

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Re:GitHub's 2015 Transparency Report by 86646 on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @11:19PM (#11999282)

In United States of America, government owns you.

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Re:GitHub's 2015 Transparency Report by paulddraper on Wednesday June 29, 2016 @10:28AM (#12001814)

People have been discussing that in the USA since its inception.

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