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Re:Cloudflare expands its government warrant canaries by DanBC on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @12:20PM (#19256276)
> I didn't take any action to disclose anything. I simply stopped updating something.

This might work if judges are fucking idiots.

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Re:Cloudflare expands its government warrant canaries by balabaster on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @01:10PM (#19256795)
This would conspiracy to commit wire fraud with a maximum sentence of 20 years and a $250,000 fine.

They surely can't compel you to break the law, even to cover up a gag order?

Of course, I'm not a lawyer and this is just conjecture on my part.

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Re:Cloudflare expands its government warrant canaries by DannyB2 on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @12:58PM (#19256677)
See my post immediately above about if the warrant canary is in the company's public financial statements.
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