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Products that do what NSL Archive – A record of publicly disclosed national security letters does

1. 1TP
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   2019 · hackernewspapers.com

2. 2HN
   Hacker News, automagically organized▲274

   2010 · metaoptimize.com

3. 3OJ
   Online journal that encrypts entries with a cipher▲45

   2015 · bitjournal.io

4. 4AN
   AssassinationFiles.net – JFK Declassified Document Search▲122

   2017 · assassinationfiles.net

5. 5OP
   Open Paperless – Scan, index, and archive paper documents▲285

   2017 · github.com

6. 6NS
   New search engine and free-FOIA-by-fax-via-web for US veteran records▲118

   Hi HN. I'm the president and founder of a small non-profit called Reclaim The Records that identifies historical and genealogical materials and data sets held by government agencies, archives, and libraries -- and then returns them to the public domain, for free public use. Back in September 2017, our organization made a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the US Department of Veterans Affairs (the VA) asking for a copy of a database they maintain called "BIRLS", which stands for the Beneficiary Identification Records Locator Subsystem. While it's not exactly an index of every…

   2025 · birls.org

7. 7HE
   Highlighting Efforts of Creation from Hacker News▲149

   2013 · medium.com

8. 8
   Permanent Record▲198

   Edward Snowden's explosive memoir is now available

   2019

9. 9HN
   Hacker News Comments▲189

   2012 · hncomments.nathancahill.com

10. 10AS
    Arc – secure file archiver▲72

    2016 · github.com

11. 11SD
    Secure Digital Archive for the Paranoid▲6

    2014 · goryachev.com

12. 12
    The Unarchiver▲147

    A beautiful, more capable Archive Utility app for the Mac

    2015

13. 13
    Securing Democracy▲79

    A "disinformation dashboard" tracking Russian propaganda

    2017

14. 14FS
    Fulltext Search for the Leaked US Embassy Cables▲42

    2010 · rpgp.org

15. 15HN
    Hacker News CLI, written in Go▲98

    2014 · github.com

16. 16DA
    Datastringer, a tool for hacker-journalists▲60

    2014 · bbc-news-labs.github.io

17. 17AH
    Analysing Hacker News Metadata with R▲45

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18. 18WC
    Weekly curated security newsletter▲7

    2017 · securitynewsletter.co

19. 19NP
    NYTimesArchive – Python Wrapper for the New York Times Archive API▲13

    2016 · github.com

20. 20AG
    A game about the Snowden leaks played by email▲43

    2015 · playtopsecret.com

21. 21IS
    Information Security Handbook▲31

    2016 · github.com

22. 22AO
    An open database of sanctions and persons of interest▲7

    2021 · opensanctions.org

23. 23HN
    Hacker News Transparency▲12

    2017 · drewdevault.com

24. 24FA
    Flint – A digital archive where relevant notes resurface▲7

    2022 · flint.so

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