It's plumbing. It's never easy.
On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 12:33 PM, William Robbins <[email protected]> wrote: > Garbage disposal. Should be easy...right? ;) > > > - WJR > 🙈🙉🙊 > > > On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 11:02 AM, Steven M. Caesare <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Which project were you repairing? >> >> >> >> -sc >> >> >> >> *From:* [email protected] [mailto: >> [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *William Robbins >> >> *Sent:* Monday, June 2, 2014 12:00 PM >> >> >> *To:* [email protected] >> *Subject:* Re: [NTSysADM] Hmmm.... TrueCrypt >> >> >> >> Agreed. I should probably have been more verbose than my "Maybe?" but I >> was in the midst of a home repair project. ;) >> >> >> >> - WJR >> 🙈🙉🙊 >> >> >> >> On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 9:48 PM, Ben Scott <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 5:46 PM, William Robbins <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > Maybe? >> http://yro.slashdot.org/story/14/06/01/1922248/the-sudden-policy-change-in-truecrypt-explained >> >> Slashdot is linking to a blog that's quoting Twitter posts that >> appear to be incoherent speculation. (I think. It's hard to tell with >> Twitter.) >> >> Anyway, as I read it, the speculation is that this is a warrant >> canary. Except... it can't be. >> >> The issue arises because the gov't can serve you with a warrant or >> other legal instrument that includes a gag order preventing you from >> even talking about it. >> >> A "warrant canary" is some thing you preemptively maintain as a >> countermeasure to such. You announce you're maintaining this canary. >> Then, if you get served, you stop maintaining the canary. The classic >> example is a daily announcement "We haven't received a warrant". The >> day you don't post that, everyone knows you just got served.[1] >> >> Suddenly yanking the project, without explanation or previously >> established meaning, is not a warrant canary. It might be what >> happens when you don't *have* a warrant canary, but that's the exact >> opposite meaning of the term. >> >> So... <shrug> >> >> -- Ben >> >> [1] The theory is, the gov't can prevent you from saying "I've been >> served with a warrant", but can't force you to speak untruth. Whether >> that actually works in reality, I have no idea. >> >> >> > >
