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Re:Cloudflare expands its government warrant canaries by joering2 on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @01:24PM (#19256918)
Whats the purpose? Most judges will understand what warrant canary is, and can simply ask them to continue signing it. Judge has the power to gag you, or force you to sign or continue doing something. Its very common in multi-scheme crimes where forcing one criminal to continue their criminal conduct is "greater good" for the sake of a whole investigation.
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Re:Cloudflare expands its government warrant canaries by throwaway88643 on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @01:52PM (#19257174)
Surely if the criminal is an assassin, the judge wouldn’t order them to continue taking contracts for “the greater goood.”
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Re:Cloudflare expands its government warrant canaries by dragonwriter on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @01:56PM (#19257210)
They certainly won't order them to continue fulfilling contracts, but they might order them to continue accepting (and reporting) them.
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Re:Cloudflare expands its government warrant canaries by zaarn on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @10:17AM (#19263717)
There is a difference between killing people and continuing to make cryptographic signatures that even the most densest of judges should recognize.
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