National Security Just Called, They Can't See the Email Traffic

Looks like the HTTP 418 is due to the HN referrer header, copy-paste into a new tab worked fine.

It could be worse.

Have you seen what you get if you visit jwz.org with a HN referrer header?

Not that I blame JWZ at all.

EDIT: I laughed.

So do I, but a lot of people here don't care much for the notion that neither HN nor its parent company YCombinator are universally admired.

Ah, so this is why I need to disable cross site referer info in Vanadium.

https://archive.md/1Hr5t

https://web.archive.org/web/20240102061501/https://chronicle...

This was an open secret I saw mentioned a number of timed on forums of Hungarian internet in those years (secret services having black boxes plugged in to servers of ISPs). Open range times, before https was common.

Site just returns HTTP 418 "I'm a teapot".

It only returns that if you click the link in HN. If you open a new tab and paste the URL, it works.

I'm getting an HTTP 418 accessing the site.

National Security called, you can't see the article.

Are you trying to brew coffee?

why anyone thinks email is secure is beyond me.