U.S.P.S. “Informed Delivery” Potential Threat to Everyone, Esp. Stalking Victims
Thanks to the Post Office, now anyone can know what’s in your mailbox, automatically… including of course, anyone in an alphabet agency. It is just another way to track you and criminalize you if deemed convenient, in time.
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“Informed Delivery?”
The idea is you register online with USPS for the FREE notification subscription service, and they then photograph the mail to be delivered to you each day, and email the images to you before delivery; that way, you know if something is stolen or lost and NOT in the delivery, and can plan on getting expected items. It is tied to other services, as well, such as package notifications, tracking services, stamp purchases, etc.
1) This is the federal government we are talking about. The FBI, CIA, and a host of other alphabeticals would have no trouble whatsoever accessing this information. There is no indication that such information is not retained indefinitely, and no privacy statement which alleviates concerns over it being used against you down the road should you become a person of interest, or a trouble maker such as a whistleblower, activist, or other targeted individual.
2) The system is achieved with online registry, and is handled by email, currently with no truly secure process for verification of the applicant or notification of the addressee that a subscription has taken place. Stalkers, private investigators, suspicious spouses or ex spouses or lovers with an axe to grind, or anyone else with minimalist information about you and where you live could sign up pretending to be you… again to include someone working for a government agency who could not be bothered with a warrant — knowing that they could later get a warrant and legally go back in time to ‘duplicate’ the effort in a manner which leaves no proof they violated your rights, earlier.
3) this means that mail must be separately sorted one more time by someone into individual stacks to ‘pose’ for the photograph, and then to take the image and email it… or the entire automated system must significantly modified at both the hardware and software level. Both are at great expense and will cost USPS more red ink… and eventually that cost will increase the price of postage for everyone, not just those using the service.
4) If the system is automated (and even a manual system will be, eventually), then it means EVERYONE’S MAIL is being imaged, all the time: The USPS becomes yet one more information tracking and tracing point available to the government, and under the program, anyone spoofing it.
I’m not the only one pointing these things out… though I’m the only one so far who has pointed out 3 & 4. Other privacy experts have echoed 1 & 2, variously, mostly item 2. Too many people PRESUME that government would NEVER use such a service to spy on them this way. That’s what they said about NSA and FBI when they first started.
Defensive Measure?
It appears the only way to prevent anyone to spoof the system to spy on your mail is to beat them to the punch and register, yourself. However, there is no assurance in place that someone could not still additionally register an alternate email identity. We can only hope and presume there is an online software check which would reject any such attempt.
Short of not taking mail, at all, there is no defense against government use of the images, if you are a person of interest targeted in someway by an agency.
Posted on May 23, 2018, in Conspiracy, Crime, Government, Political Control Technology, Targeted Individuals, Uncategorized. Bookmark the permalink. 2 Comments.
proparanoid 
Mail is already being scanned and OCR’d when it’s sorted by machines. It’s a small change to send the scanned image to someone by email. This can be done with a secure connection, but what is left of your security if they have your password as soon as you think of it? The problem is rather that they know that they can obtain your password and you cannot stop that because your brain has no firewall. By making everything depend on passwords, they give themselves power. This explains the feature creep with extra passwords. We need an alternative for passwords that is really secure.
The technology is not as advanced as you think it is, and yet… it can be simulated with lesser tech. Truly, to know the contents of though in real time, requires invasive probes too many to count. In experiments with cats, they first remove the skull cap, because it is simpler than drilling that many holes, and they can remove reinsert if they miss a mark. And, all that data must be fed into a room of supercomputers for processing. No TI has suffered that. But they do have more than one way to avoid skinning that cat.