A warrant canary is a method by which a communications service provider aims to implicitly inform its users that the provider has been served with a government subpoena despite legal prohibitions on revealing the existence of the subpoena

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrant_canary

    • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.world
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      14 days ago

      Yeah, government doesn’t really work when you have bad faith actors abusing the processes. Nothing does. People acting in good faith is kind of the foundational basis assumption of the social contract