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

7 comments

• miloignis 4 hours ago
  Looks like the HTTP 418 is due to the HN referrer header, copy-paste into a new tab worked fine.
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  • mgraybosch 4 hours ago
    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.

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    • wyldfire 4 hours ago
      Let's test it out: https://www.jwz.org/

      EDIT: I laughed.

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      • mgraybosch 4 hours ago
        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.
  • unethical_ban 4 hours ago
    Ah, so this is why I need to disable cross site referer info in Vanadium.
• crimsonnoodle58 4 hours ago
  https://archive.md/1Hr5t
• poisonborz 4 hours ago
  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.
• wffurr 4 hours ago
  Site just returns HTTP 418 "I'm a teapot".
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  • ihuman 4 hours ago
    It only returns that if you click the link in HN. If you open a new tab and paste the URL, it works.
• deckar01 4 hours ago
  https://web.archive.org/web/20240102061501/https://chronicle...
• daft_pink 3 hours ago
  why anyone thinks email is secure is beyond me.
• unethical_ban 4 hours ago
  I'm getting an HTTP 418 accessing the site.
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  • quantified 4 hours ago
    National Security called, you can't see the article.
  • hypeatei 4 hours ago
    Are you trying to brew coffee?