[Sir_Cmpwn]

Ack! My other half is responsible for the warrant canary. He keeps forgetting it. We may as well not even have it. It doesn't mean much without a signature, but I assure you that we have never been served a warrant.

[laureny]

Nice try, NSA.

[Sir_Cmpwn]

Well, even if we had been served a warrant, I dunno what we'd give them. We don't store anything about our users. https://blog.mediacru.sh/2013/07/19/MediaCrush-for-nerds.htm...

[vinceguidry]

I'm pretty sure he was joking.

[duiker101]

can't you make it automatic, taking the news with rss and stop it if you get a warrant?

[Wilya]

That defeats the purpose.

I think the whole point of a warrant canary is that you have to do something, every week/month, to confirm that you never had to obey a warrant. And (presumably, I don't think it has been tried in courts yet) a gag order can prevent you to speak about a warrant, but it can't force you to do anything, including actively saying that you didn't receive anything.

If it's automated.. the gag order prevents you to stop it, so it might as well not be there.

[Sir_Cmpwn]

Nope. If an adversary seizes our servers, we couldn't stop it from falsely reporting that all is well.

[atlbeer]

If you sign the request w/ a key that isn't present on your servers than it should be impossible for that to occur.

Unless they seize the computer with the key as well

[duiker101]

If an adversary seizes your servers wouldn't you have bigger worries like getting them back or complaying with the warrant?