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# NSA Haiku Generator
- URL: https://www.protein.xyz/nsa-haiku-generator/
- Published: 2013-11-01T13:06:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-05-28T11:00:30.000Z
- Description: Create the world's most threatening poetry
- Author: Protein
- Tags: Seeds, #protein, #Import 2024-06-11 13:25, #author-change-2025-05-28

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When Edward Snowden confirmed internet users' suspicions that the NSA are spying on the world's online activities, many of us checked through our browser histories and resolved that mention of anything left-of-legal would be kept out of our social media feeds.   
Not so Grayson Earle, creator of the NSA Haiku Generator. Using the traditional Japanese 3-line, 5-7-5 syllable format, the Haiku Generator uses key words deemed threatening by the NSA and Department of Homeland Security to create poems that will set alarm bells ringing at home base.  
Although the generator doesn't quite create coherent lines of flowing verse (it literally lumps key words together) it's an interesting project, raising questions of internet [privacy](https://www.prote.in/en/feed/2013/10/enjoy-your-privacy?ref=protein.xyz#.UnOk97S57Vo) (and a whimsical middle finger to the watchdogs), promoting awareness of our [digital paper trail](https://www.prote.in/en/feed/2013/09/justdelete-me?ref=protein.xyz#.UnOk9rS57Vp), as well as demonstrating where poetry can take us in the digital age, particularly as a means of protest.  
To throw caution to the wind and pen your own Haiku to the NSA, click [here](http://www.nsahaiku.net/?ref=protein.xyz).

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