This personal insult is uncalled for. It's easy to sit around and complain about what the government is doing, but this man has actually gone out and done something - setting up infrastructure to make it easier for the average person to submit these requests, he is spreading the word, etc. He has also done great work protesting the TSA.
His infrastructure does not make it easier to submit these requests. It is harder to submit them with his stuff than to use the NSA's own form:
http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/foia/submit_foia_request/foia...
Idiot may have been harsh as a judgement of character, but this post is idiotic.
- 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, they had to stalk that down first
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=5920564Turns out, you were being misleading, not 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: Also, from http://www.mynsarecords.com/contact/
Yes, how did they get your email, indeed. Probably some kind of spy technology.This man is an idiot, please don't fill up HN with this drivel.