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Oh wow, they just disabled it while I was reading some comments. It's no longer working, I'm now getting redirected to nsa.gov Edit: This seems to have been on

• basilamer 7y ago
  As someone very confused as to what people are commenting about, thank you. I'm clearly just seeing the post-patch version
  • casefields 7y ago
    Before they fixed it, it redirected to Googles homepage in Portuguese.
    • dahfizz 7y ago
      It wasn't a redirect. They served a Google homepage, but it was still an nsa.gov url
    • mirimir 7y ago
      Here: https://web.archive.org/web/20200203154312/https://captcha.nsa.gov/ https://web.archive.org/web/20200203154312/https://captcha.n...
      • a012 7y ago
        I still see a Google homepage
        • dannyw 7y ago
          That's what it was. The NSA was reverse proxying Google. The legit explanation (given the domain name) is probably they wanted to use reCAPTCHA, but block all non-NSA hosts with a firewall or something. This is not great, because the NSA expanded its attack surface to all of google.com. The more conspiracy explanation is that this is actually a phishing page set up, and due to a misconfiguration it's exposed under captcha.nsa.gov, but Occam's Razor should apply here.
          • mirimir 7y ago
            As far as I can tell, it's what you'd see hitting https://www.google.com.br/ https://www.google.com.br/ from Brasil, but in English.
          • littlestymaar 7y ago
            I think you meant “Hanlon's razor”[1]. [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor
• tsukurimashou 7y ago
  Hahaha, I don't think they were expecting all that traffic from this being posted on HN