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warrant canaries

warrant canaries is the plural of warrant canary.

Meaning of warrant canary

Noun

warrant canary (plural warrant canaries)

  1. (US) A public notice that a service provider has not received a secret government subpoena for their customers' data that they would be prohibited from saying they had received.
    • However, it may be possible, via a warrant canary or a similar technique, for a CA to communicate the existence of a secret court order to the Internet community.2012 July 9, Markus Jakobsson, editors, The Death of the Internet, Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 159

Questions about warrant canaries

What is warrant canaries the plural of?
Warrant canaries is the plural of warrant canary.

Words near warrant canaries in the dictionary

  1. warrands
  2. Warrandyte
  3. Warrandyte South
  4. Warrane
  5. warrant
  6. warrant canaries
  7. warrant canary
  8. warrant card
  9. warrant cards
  10. warrant of arrest
  11. warrant of attorney

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