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I am quite sure that the fact that they are getting so many requests will travel up higher than the paper handlers. :)
What makes you so sure?
ESP
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Re: NSA: Please Stop Mailing Us FOIA Requests
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
Pretty spooky. Or maybe the woman just went to his website, and looked at the contact page.
Yes but... I didn't give them my Web site, either. All they had was my name as the return address.
Well at least someone at the NSA doesn't need http://lmgtfy.com/ lol
Re: NSA: Please Stop Mailing Us FOIA Requests
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
Pretty spooky. Or maybe the woman just went to his website, and looked at the contact page.
Yes but... I didn't give them my Web site, either. All they had was my name as the return address.
took me 30 seconds...
If I have your name, which is: Jonathan Corbett.
I google searched "Jonathan Corbett NSA"
The first link is your twitter account: https://twitter.com/tsaoutourpants
Which mentions: http://www.mynsarecords.com/
I do a whois on the site: (public information)
Corbett, Jonathan jcorbett@fourtentech.com
FourTen Technologies, Inc.
407 Lincoln Road
11th Floor
Miami Beach, Florida 33139
United States
8774100410
Not very difficult really.
Re: NSA: Please Stop Mailing Us FOIA Requests
#24> It seems that the NSA does not quite get that this is a protest I don't get it. What's it achieving? > Imagine the NSA ending up with a desk full of a million records requests, and what a statement that would make, even if they refuse to process every one of them. Well, they've got at least 500 so far. Only nine hundred and ninety nine thousand to go. I wonder how many of those 500 have any records with NSA?
500.
The NSA is capturing all internet and telephone traffic for every individual on this planet with a phone or email account.
But perhaps they don't index it by person name, and so 500 becomes 0 because of that.
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#25Re: NSA: Please Stop Mailing Us FOIA Requests
#26What's the actual protest? That the paper FOIA requests don't include the required information to honor said request, allowing the NSA to throw out the requests entirely without having to spend time fulfilling them? Sounds more like the ~~company~~ guy is trying to cover for ~~its~~ his fuckup filling out the forms. It's a much more effective protest to actually make the NSA follow through with the requests. Edit: Al…
- I am "the company guy" / "idiot" - Forms were generated via script, so no "fucking up filling out forms" (by me, anyway) - A few people entered incomplete addresses, but I sent them anyway because I thought the address was sufficient to reach them (for example, missing city but valid ZIP) - 95% of the forms I sent had full, valid addresses - The NSA wasn't provided with my Web site, so in order to get the e-mail, t…
I Googled the address you list on your website. Your name comes up. Googling your name reveals your blog.
Your blog links to the mynsarecords website.
Took me 2 minutes.
Edit: I'm not as quick as pavs though, it only took him 30s:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5920564Re: NSA: Please Stop Mailing Us FOIA Requests
#27> It seems that the NSA does not quite get that this is a protest I don't get it. What's it achieving? > Imagine the NSA ending up with a desk full of a million records requests, and what a statement that would make, even if they refuse to process every one of them. Well, they've got at least 500 so far. Only nine hundred and ninety nine thousand to go. I wonder how many of those 500 have any records with NSA?
500. The NSA is capturing all internet and telephone traffic for every individual on this planet with a phone or email account. But perhaps they don't index it by person name, and so 500 becomes 0 because of that.
We include the phone number for them so they can look it up :)
Re: NSA: Please Stop Mailing Us FOIA Requests
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
- I am "the company guy" / "idiot" - Forms were generated via script, so no "fucking up filling out forms" (by me, anyway) - A few people entered incomplete addresses, but I sent them anyway because I thought the address was sufficient to reach them (for example, missing city but valid ZIP) - 95% of the forms I sent had full, valid addresses - The NSA wasn't provided with my Web site, so in order to get the e-mail, t…
Also, people who submitted obviously invalid addresses were contacted by e-mail and allowed to re-submit. Pretty stupid, right? ;)
It just explains the part of the NSA's letter to you where you pretended like they lied or were being misleading.
Turns out, you were being misleading, not them.
Re: NSA: Please Stop Mailing Us FOIA Requests
#29> It seems that the NSA does not quite get that this is a protest I don't get it. What's it achieving? > Imagine the NSA ending up with a desk full of a million records requests, and what a statement that would make, even if they refuse to process every one of them. Well, they've got at least 500 so far. Only nine hundred and ninety nine thousand to go. I wonder how many of those 500 have any records with NSA?
500. The NSA is capturing all internet and telephone traffic for every individual on this planet with a phone or email account. But perhaps they don't index it by person name, and so 500 becomes 0 because of that.
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Re: NSA: Please Stop Mailing Us FOIA Requests
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Pretty spooky. Or maybe the woman just went to his website, and looked at the contact page.
Yes but... I didn't give them my Web site, either. All they had was my name as the return address.
Was your return address, the same as the one posted on your site? If so, just googling that, the first result is your site, which shows your email.