Show HN: Ask the NSA (askthensa.com)

68 points by hiddentao ↗ HN
"The NSA Transparency Initiative was undertaken in response to the recent unauthorized disclosure of classified information. This website will answer your questions about the NSA's programs."

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Is tracking an IP address scary? :p
To many, yes. I did that once, using SMF forum's "who is online" page and a bit of PHP code to display a signature image "Hello $username, your IP $ip has been saved to the database!". That really pissed them off, though I could have just tracked/saved it without telling them.
Well, it is metadata and we know what that means.
When that FBI WML came on, I burst out laughing; the execution here is awesome.
As if they are going to tell us the REALITY.. :D
Very funny! Also, I like the design.
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I asked if I'm on a shitlist and it said I'm an Al Queda associative force. I'll take that as a yes.
I lost the number of the girl I phoned three weeks ago. Can you help me out?
Am I mistaken, or have these guys actually managed to infringe on the WTFPL?

https://github.com/hiddentao/askthensa http://www.wtfpl.net/faq/

How have they infringed?
I think this line "Copyright (C) 2004 Ramesh Nair ram@hiddentao.com and Nick Budden hello@nickbudden.com" should read "Copyright (C) 2004 Sam Hocevar". It is the copyright statement for the license text, not the program, so cannot be changed without changing the name of the license.
>nginx/1.1.19

meh, even the al-qaeda website runs a more up-to-date web server...

Brilliant: I put in a question and it returned "405 Not Allowed".
Same. I don't know if it's a real NSA website that contains a bug (maybe because I am not based in the US?) or just some HNer who set up the whole thing as a joke.
The eagle is wearing headphones...I love it