This is a brilliant idea I just stumbled across. The US government believes it can suppress its crimes through the force of law, but by publishing a weekly statement, a service provider can prove that they have received an NSL because they can no longer publish that statement. http://www.rsync.net/resources/notices/canary.txt They can force you not to disclose an NSL, but they can't force you publish a false statement. Fuck them. I have also heard that if Google gets an NSL, on your next login they force you to accept their terms of service again, which is a wink-wink way to tell you that they have been served an NSL. Just a heads up if you have a Google account. I do believe they are on the right side, but as a major corporation they are strangled by the law.