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takyon [soylentnews.org] writes:

Reddit's warrant canary has disappeared from its 2015 transparency report [theregister.co.uk], indicating that the website probably received a National Security Letter:

A warrant canary [theregister.co.uk] is a technique whereby companies can get around the restrictions involved with National Security Letters, which typically bar the recipient from letting on that Uncle Sam is snooping around on their servers. Companies can, however, say that they haven't received one, and then take that comment down once the Feds come knocking.

Reddit has had a canary up for two years, but on Thursday the site released its 2015 transparency report [reddit.com] and it was quickly spotted that the canary had taken wing and was no longer mentioned. Reddit being Reddit, plenty of angry words were posted online and then the user /specz – aka the site's CEO Steve Huffman – came on to comment. "I've been advised not to say anything one way or the other," he said [reddit.com], which makes things clear.

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