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Literally the headline. Not illegal at all is best of course.

I'd like to have a sort of reverse Warrant Canary of sorts, that will pop if security is breached

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I don't understand how something such as you're asking would be a reverse warrant canary? Canaries get pulled as a way of broadcasting something without breaking a court order not to talk about it. How would you do a reverse of that by posting something that breaks the rules or violates norms?

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 15 minutes ago) (1 children)

Say I make a secure network that you all can use.

A warranty canary would be the famous "FBI has not yet been here" on the page I'm sharing on this network right?

But what if this is a decentralised network where there is no central node that can be compromised? How will I even know if the security of the network has somehow been breached?

My idea is this reverse warranty canard; if one day I get a cease and desist letter, I know the network has been infiltrated in one way or another.

Up til I get that, it's not like I'm 100% safe (like when the "FBI hasn't been here yet" is stil there), but if I do get one, I know I'm not.

Maybe the reverse warranty canard exists and I'm using it all wrong, otherwise it made sense for me.

Edit: as pointed out its warrant canard not warranty canard.

[–] y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Lmao entirely unrelated but I love the slow autocorrect degradation of "warrant canary" into "warranty canard" throughout your comment

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 1 points 16 minutes ago

Ha ha, I'm not a native speaker so that could 100% just be my fault.