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Re:Twitter sues U.S. government over ability to disclose sur... by AnonNo15 on Tuesday October 07, 2014 @03:50PM (#8423577)
You can do it right now by embedding such message in Bitcoin blockchain. It will give you tamper-proof and timestamped message.
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Re:Twitter sues U.S. government over ability to disclose sur... by rsync on Wednesday October 08, 2014 @12:02PM (#8427623)
A bit easier is to simply include a news headline in the signed message:

http://www.rsync.net/resources/notices/canary.txt

It's not as sophisticated as the blockchain, etc., but about as good - if you pick sensitive pieces of financial news it's clear you could not have known about them in advance. Or sports results.

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