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Comment by mseebach

12 years ago

> is there any reason to believe that it wouldn't work?

Yes. The law generally isn't a binary automaton that can be "tricked" by a bit of clever catch-22 logic.

Your canary is a one-bit communications channel. Removing it or ceasing to update it constitutes flipping the bit. That, obviously, is communication.

not if it decays by default (TOTP). I don't think ISP-s can be mandated to periodically refresh the hash.

  • That's exactly what I'm saying I think they can. The courts, not being simple machines, care about the substance, not technicalities. You are ordered to not communicate X: If, due to previous arrangements made in bad faith, abstaining from performing a certain activity results in you communicating X, you have communicated X. It's not rocket science.

    • just package the deal as a general service health status, which may or may not include certain operational events (you'd have to trust the ISP about the canary anyway).