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Re:Cloudflare expands its government warrant canaries by dev_dull on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @01:17PM (#19256851)
I don’t think it would be forced directly. I think they’d put the company under a gag with threat of criminal punishment if they do anything to “signal” an investigation. Then an operator has to ask themself “is it worth risking jail time by updating this page?”
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Re:Cloudflare expands its government warrant canaries by graedus on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @01:34PM (#19257019)
The appeal of the Warrant Canary design is that the operator simply has to take no action (i.e. not update the page) to signal that they've been contacted by law enforcement, in theory making it safer. It's still a risk though.
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Re:Cloudflare expands its government warrant canaries by ceejayoz on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @06:33PM (#19259446)
Taking no action can be illegal, as child neglect and negligent homicide demonstrate.
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Re:Cloudflare expands its government warrant canaries by testvox on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @11:10AM (#19264085)
Yeah but here the action would be to make a false publication, which as discussed higher up the courts have been reluctant to force people to do.
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