[HN Gopher] The NSA Is Defeated by a 1950s Tape Recorder. Can Yo...
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       The NSA Is Defeated by a 1950s Tape Recorder. Can You Help Them?
        
       Author : rolph
       Score  : 23 points
       Date   : 2024-07-13 21:26 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (hackaday.com)
        
       | 486sx33 wrote:
       | To the author: perhaps if you want this so badly you could source
       | the machine and officially donate it to the NSA yourself and then
       | reference the donation paperwork in your next FOIA .
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       | I doubt trashing the NSA all over tech media will get you what
       | you want.. plus I don't want extra bureaucrats hired just to
       | spend more money on obscure FOIA requests..
        
         | rocqua wrote:
         | Ideally, the response isn't to hire more people to fight the
         | FOIA requests, but instead to honor the requests.
        
         | pessimizer wrote:
         | The NSA should have the ability to answer _any_ FOIA request.
         | Massive federal agencies shouldn 't be able to plead laziness.
        
         | toomuchtodo wrote:
         | This is a very low value comment. It is in the national
         | interest to attempt to satisfy good faith records requests.
         | This equipment likely exists at the National Archives, and if
         | it doesn't, it would be straightforward to procure and have an
         | interagency request to digitize. This is what I expect from my
         | government, and if we have to throw a few thousand dollars at
         | the process, so be it. Just tell us who to make the check out
         | to.
        
       | toomuchtodo wrote:
       | Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40926428
        
       | phendrenad2 wrote:
       | FOIA feels like the wrong way to go about this. I think working
       | with the US National Archives or the Library of Congress might be
       | better, as what people really want here are of historical
       | interest and not citizen oversight of government (the ultimate
       | purpose of the FOIA).
        
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