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"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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I lost the number of the girl I phoned three weeks ago. Can you help me out?

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 fact that this could be mistaken for a real NSA website really speaks to the sad state of affairs the NSA has put itself in.

Look at the bottom of this file http://askthensa.com/js/bootstrap.js you'll know what to type.

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.

Look at the bottom of this file: http://askthensa.com/js/bootstrap.js

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.

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.

>nginx/1.1.19

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

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

The eagle is wearing headphones...I love it

Very funny! Also, I like the design.

You got me for a moment there!

brilliant but all too realistic alas

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