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secfirstmd on Dec 14, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Sharing National Security Letters with the Public

But how does that work with a distributed canary? An NSL may affect someone in the USA who is part of a canary but what if it has to be signed by someone in the UK, then Hong Kong, then Kenya, then Venezuela etc? Those people can't be compelled to sign it....

kakarot on Dec 14, 2016 [–]

What canaries for sure operate this way? That definitely makes things a little harder for the boys in black.

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