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

  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    14 days ago

    Tyrion Lannister does this in Game of Thrones (I want to say in Clash of Kings, but it’s been like 15 years since I’ve read the books)