[liberationtech] Postal mail monitoring

2013-07-03 Thread Matt Johnson
This NY Times article: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/04/us/monitoring-of-snail-mail.html?hp_r=2pagewanted=all reports that the USPS has been keeping images of the outside of mail for years. It is used in criminal investigations and for national security. This is some information about how often

Re: [liberationtech] Postal mail monitoring

2013-07-03 Thread The Doctor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/03/2013 02:11 PM, Matt Johnson wrote: I thought this might be of interest to this list, especially to anyone who thought they could be safe by not using digital communications. It would be interesting to correlate this against reports of

Re: [liberationtech] Postal mail monitoring

2013-07-03 Thread R. Jason Cronk
This was revealed last month (possibly earlier). See http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/woman-arrested-for-obama-bloomberg-ricin-letters-687435 To The Doctor's point, I'm not sure what you would correlate. Everybody's mail is being photographed so On 7/3/2013 2:34 PM, The Doctor