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thenewgreen  ·  4038 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Apple hides a Patriot-Act-busting "warrant canary" in its transparency report

That's a good question, I'm not sure that their intention is for it "to work". Perhaps, it's a direct way of indirectly challenging the NSA. You want to take us to task for this? We're going to make it public. You want to punish us for this? Okay, but you'll be doing it in the public space.





user-inactivated  ·  4038 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I can see that angle for it. I guess I'm more pessimistic to see it as an "all's fine here, don't worry" to the investors and customers. If we can't trust that it will really work, it feels a lot more like placation than resistance.