2 April 2012
Postal Digital Spying
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Before email, social media, hacking, anonymizers and back-doored encryption
took their place, postal services (most of them also ran
telecommunications) were the prime means of official and commercial
spying. The freedom-promising Internet's ease and ubiquity of digital spying
worldwide for a while made paper mail more secure, used even by officials
and the military who knew digital communications favored its operators over
users. That short-lived, somewhat safe postal means of comms -- along with
courier and delivery services -- now looks to be again doing do-gooders'
triple-crossing evil.
In our NYC 72-unit condo, an in-house digital tracking, security video and
notification system records the last-few-feet spying node supplementing an
all-building cable-tv-phone-internet rig with handy tap-panel in the basement
and a perp-IDing in-home converter box surveilling and archiving futile surfing
for escape.
Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2012 20:07:10 +0200
From: "Erich M." <me[at]quintessenz.org>
To: nettime-l[at]kein.org
Subject: Re: <nettime> The (Letter-) Post Office's last stand ... in
Florida(WSJ)
On 03/30/2012 01:57 PM, John Young wrote:
> The postal system remains the most secure public communication
> system for all its faults and invasive letter opening and
craven
> cooperation with official spies and their corporate cohorts.
Servus John et al,
Ack to all you wrote with a single exception, squire John. The first paragraph
ought to be in past tense. I just started digging into that topic, what I
already know is: Address scanning/reading in, applying 2-D Codes and timestamps
at every stage of transportation. When post office cars or private delivery
services stop in front of my house here in .AT my signature is performed
on an electronic pad.
At first sight I'd say massive datasets generated by snail mail and packet
sorting and processing systems are generously inviting companies to spy on
each other and combat competitors abroad. Analysis of delivery cycles, timely
detection of hostile marketing campaigns, tracking and blocking delivery
of goods under patent/copyright claims or whatever the clone offsprings of
ancient DMCA ACTA/TPP/SOPA/PIPA require.
What a nice topic to dig - ahem - to dive into, methinks. Not forgetting
my nose clamp I remain
humbly yours
Erich M.
> All digital comsec is faulty -- by design so its designers say
to
> aid sysadministration and security/privacy updates. No official
> agency has ever had such intimate sustained access to those
> willing to barter digital hawking-gawking for instant full-body
> cat-scan diagnosis.
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