Ask HN: Please add a warrant canary to the footer

#1

Post by grandalf » Fri, Apr 01, 2016, 3:50 AM UTC

With Reddit being forced to take down its canary, it is more important than ever to make canaries mainstream/acceptable.

Re: Ask HN: Please add a warrant canary to the footer

#2

Post by zachlatta » Fri, Apr 01, 2016, 6:02 AM UTC

On that note, let's also add canaries to our own projects. The more mainstream this is, the better.

Here's ours, which we added today: https://github.com/hackclub/hackclub/blob/master/TRANSPARENC.... Feel free to use this as a template for your own.

Re: Ask HN: Please add a warrant canary to the footer

#3

Post by pitaa » Fri, Apr 01, 2016, 6:44 AM UTC

That would assume that HN has not already received an NSL.

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#4

Post by unicornholio » Fri, Apr 01, 2016, 12:47 PM UTC

My canary-as-a-service startup is going to disrupt the canary industry.

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#5

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Apr 01, 2016, 3:01 PM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: Please add a warrant canary to the footer

#6

Post by soared » Fri, Apr 01, 2016, 3:46 PM UTC

pitaa wrote: post #3

That would assume that HN has not already received an NSL.

I think its safe to assume they already have.

Re: Ask HN: Please add a warrant canary to the footer

#7

Post by 075 » Sat, Apr 02, 2016, 9:50 PM UTC

soared wrote: post #6

pitaa wrote: post #3

That would assume that HN has not already received an NSL.

I think its safe to assume they already have.

Why would they?