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Re:Captcha.nsa.gov by batuhanicoz on Monday February 03, 2020 @12:52PM (#22226794)
People on that thread also noticed more keywords and think it might be Akamai WAF. I don't know enough about it be sure.

You can't have some strings in the URL for the main NSA.gov domain as well. So https://nsa.gov/fakething?hey=traceroute will give you the same error.

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Re:Captcha.nsa.gov by ehsankia on Monday February 03, 2020 @01:52PM (#22227540)
Yeah it's clear that a system is just blindly grepping the request url for certain keywords and killing the query.
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