From: Lance Cottrell <loki@obscura.com>
   On May 30, 2014, at 4:56 AM, [1]dan@geer.org wrote:
   >> | Could this non-notice be a Lavabit/Silent Circle type
   announcement/warning?
   >> We need, somehow, a safe word for such projects.  Presumably one
   >> that is triggered by a failed keep-alive.  This has been discussed
   >> before variously, but it may be an idea whose time has come.  Design
   >> will require choices between false alarms and silent failure.
   >> --dan
   >A deadman switch for NSL alerts would make for an interesting case.
   Would a judge rule that you had “spoken” >about the NSL by failing to
   send the keep-alive messages, thus compelling you to continuously speak
   the lie >that you have not received one?
   >Lance Cottrell
   >[2]loki@obscura.com
   It would be a very interesting test case.  I would say it shouldn't
   happen, but a lot of outrages occur.
     Another version might be where an American company informs its
   foreign law firm of the status of the court order; the foreign law firm
   has a long-standing practice (contracted by the American company) of
   publishing the status of the NSL-status remotely.  The (American) judge
   would not have any jurisdiction over the foreign law firm to order it
   to (falsely) claim that no NSL order had arrived at the American
   company.  At that point, the question will be, "Can a judge order an
   American company to not inform its foreign law firm of relevant
   information (an NSL order), solely because if it did, the foreign law
   firm will adjust its publication of an announcement?"
             Jim Bell

References

   1. mailto:dan@geer.org
   2. mailto:loki@obscura.com