My understanding of a "warrant canary" is the courts allegedly have a scheme where they don't hesitate to ban you from saying you're being used for government spying, but they supposedly don't quite work themselves up to punishing you for not saying you're NOT under scrutiny. But the key point is that you have to be omitting some AFFIRMATIVE action. I don't think "watch for removal of this notice" will work because they'd say the act of removing it is exactly the same as going out to the press and making a full statement.
Rambler wrote (edited )
For those curious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrant_canary and /w/warrant_canary
Good question, and it wasn't created with any sort of legal consultation to be fair.
I guess January's notice my have different phrasing that that goes along the lines of, "Be aware of any prolonged period of no updates to this notice" or something. The goal is to update it monthly however. I guess one could be placed under legal order to continue to update it, I'm not certain as I've yet to see a case where that has been required.
I'm not going to be at the keyboard at the strike of midnight at the beginning of every new month, however, if (for example) it's January 4th and I've:
Then there is the possibility it slipped my mind ( I have a reminder set, though ) or, y'know. It's working as intended and not updated on purpose.
With that said I want everyone to understand what is even available if a request was made, which is shockingly little. Can't share what we don't know. One of the benefits of the end-user accessing this site through the various network is this:
The inability to diffrentiate between User_A and User_B while using the anonymity networks is one of the reasons why I've stated that in the event of severe abuse stemming from any particular network, I'll close access to that network (temporarily) to prevent it.
If anyone is concerned about their privacy, my suggestions are to:
IF YOU EVER FEEL LIKE YOUR OPSEC HAS BEEN COMPROMISED OR YOU NEED OR WANT TO START FRESH
That will delete all your posts, submissions, votes, everything. We do run backups of this site and without giving away too much because it's really not the public's business, in a matter of a short period any available backup that had any of that information stored will be overwritten a newer backup, one that doesn't contain that info. Backups are for when I inevitably mess something up by mistake and need to recover from it without much (hopefully) data loss.