Someone wrote here in the recent past about libraries bypassing secret warrants by updating their boards every X days/months with a "nobody has served us a secret warrant" type message. I am using a new offsite storage vendor, rsync.net, which publishes what they call a "warrant canary": http://www.rsync.net/resources/notices/canary.txt Which I found interesting. Is this what they have been called, or did they make up the term "warrant canary" ? How large of a grain of salt should I take this with ? It seems (and always did when I read of the libraries doing it) like a reasonable idea, and their implementation (signing the message, including a non-forgeable date stamp) is thoughtful. It's an interesting time we live in ... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com