[stusmall]

As I understand it warrant canaries are controversial in the legal community or at least were last I looked. Some of the questions you are exactly what they've asked. I don't know if any of the theories have been properly tested in courts yet.

I'd be extremely skeptical of anything you read in this thread about contentious signing, dates or whateever. There are a lot of amateur lawyers with amateur opinions in here. If you are interested in ever using one, find a lawyer and check with them first.

But whatever the legal consensus is, I doubt a git commit that says "NSA wuz here" fits in with it.