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Looks like a fairly useful admin console actually. Time to fork it!
This isn't about a backdoor in NSA's Flask (SELinux). This title will be misunderstood. Add [python] or [parody] or something.
Got a link for that? I've honestly only ever heard of the Python Flask, never the other.
Little bobby tables is at it again...
NSA Backdoor as a Service a.k.a NSA BS
This term will be assimilated into my vocabulary.
Funny, I would have turned it into an acronym of NSA Baa'S. Then we could give them a sheep as a mascot and everything would work.
Why not code it in Clojure or Lisp?
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I still feel that this title is misleading, since I understood it to mean "there is a backdoor in Flask, and here is the evidence" before I clicked through.
I think this is actually not as funny as the real thing. As far as I can gather, FISA 702 orders http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/110/hr6304/text , used to target non-resident aliens, don't require the NSA to state that "I think they are a terrorist" or give any reason or justification at all for wanting all your data to the FISC court, let alone to the website operators.
According to Snowden the NSA is very good at MITM attacks.

No parody needed to something that alarming.

And joking about it only dilutes an extremely serious concern.