Apple hides a Patriot-Act-busting "warrant canary" in its transparency report
My not-a-lawyer read on the whole warrant canary thing is that it would never fly in front of a judge.  In other words, anyone with two brain cells can see that, if there has in fact been a 215 order by the time the next report rolls around, then deliberately removing the warrant canary language is tantamount to revealing the order's existence, which is illegal.  So warrant canaries, while seemingly clever, are actually pretty much worthless.  You may as well just openly announce something, rather than try to be clever about it.Therefore, I am forced to come to the Kafkaesque conclusion that Apple only included this language because they already have been subject to a Section 215 warrant.  Otherwise there's no reason to put the language in there at all, since it's useless.