That Schneier article [1] is very technical and reveals quite a lot of interesting information. It was immediately flagged off HN front page by the flagging brigade [2]. It's highly recommended reading, though.

[1]http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/04/tor-attacks-nsa...

[2]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6495771

No it wasn't. It at the top of the front page now.

It actually was earlier removed from frontpage, only to reappear after some 10 minutes or so.

Must be a conspiracy.

I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss weird behavior with submissions. Would you?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5008829

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5008267

Yes, I would. You probably know less than you think you do about what the people running HN are doing/trying to do.

Seems you knew about the the YC company-related submissions being boosted. What makes you think nothing strange is happening to any other submissions?

>YC company-related submissions being boosted //

I missed the disclosure on this one, is it in the FAQ or somewhere else?

Looks like the NSA invoked the HN.RemoveArticle method.

That Schneier article is a must read with lots of technical details.

Anyone know how to start identifying the FoxAcid servers and calling them out?

PDFs of the leaked documents:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/8014...

http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/801434/doc2.pdf

http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/801435/doc3.pdf

A lot of these articles use abstruse acronyms. Is there perhaps a place where they're all compiled with their explanations?

For instance, what is (U)? Or (S), (SI), and (REL)?

U : Unclassified, S : Secret, SI : special intelligence (an SCI control marking), REL : marking that designates release

There's a bunch more too:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classified_information

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensitive_Compartmented_Informa...

Yes, such as "EPICFAIL".