There are actually two separate investigative agencies within the USPS. The Postal Inspection Service investigates Mail Fraud, External Crimes (done by non-employees against the USPS or Postal Employees), drugs trafficked through the mail, and employee assaults. The Postal Police are a uniformed division of the Inspection Service and perform security at postal facilities.
The USPS Office of Inspector General was formed in 1997 by the direction of Congressman Grassley. It's investigations of internal theft and financial auditing used to be done by Inspectors. But rather than having the agency head (The Chief Postal Inspector) report to the Board of Governors instead of the Postmaster General, the Congressman set up an entire new bureaucracy to support the agents who investigate internal fraud, waste and abuse.
So while it sounds wasteful to have 2 investigative agencies, it was mandated by Congress, who is happy to spend the revenues of the Postal Service.
Narrowly defined, Snapter works as advertised. It really does take the warp out of images, and it will also take out fingers on the sides if you need to hold the book open while photographing.
The pdf files it saves are just images, not OCR'd text. That's a big drawback.
An upper level manager with the Postal Service was holding court after a fluff-speak filled meeting with us minions. I had to pass by him and the group of suck ups that immediately formed in his vicinity.
He mistook me for a executive wannabe and asked me about energizing the dynamics in our work group. I told him that people kept talking about thinking outside the box, but since we are in the delivery business we should think ABOUT the box.
The guy looked like he just had a revelation. Something tells me he'd architected a meaningful world class enterprise strategy (and appropriated my sarcasm as a new catch phrase at the same time).
Thank you for injecting reason into this thread!! I deal with US District Court often in child porn cases and they have a very simple criteria:
If the only place CP exists is in the cache, there is certainly plausible deniability that you intended to possess it and a charge will not be filed. They realize what browser hijackers and popups can do.
I regularly see suspects with GB's of CP in meticulously catalogged directories and on DVD's. The "oops" defense evaporates.
Phrack's last issue was predicted at about #5
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Anyone remember The Wacko Cracko Brothers who where supposed to have relaunched TAP and crush Phrack? Nineteen later Phrack is still on the verge of disappearing.
It was a hell of a ride. Randy, Craig and John (Forest Ranger) were good friends. I hope they are doing well.
Another poster already said it, now most of the things we wrote about would be considered terrorism by the same folks who (oops) missed the REAL terrorists and later found that invoking the "T" word gets press coverage and unlimited funding from Congress.
As long as there are secrets there will be a group of adolescents who will find it. Whether they call it "Phrack" or not is less important than sharing the information.
Hats off to the contributors who probably had no idea that Metal Shop Private would sort of live on for almost two decades.
The local press in St. Louis covered the antics of these candidates. One of them was having a hard time getting arrested. He kept throwing himself into the riot shields of the police and bouncing off.
Then another serious candidate who looked like Santa Claus, but dressed only in tan shorts ranted and raved to reporters about the eeeeevil police removing his campaign banner that was leaning against the security fence. He was not arrested.
When even the mainstream media depicts the actions of your candidate alongside those of eccentrics, maybe it's a problem with the actions of your candidate that are the problem and not a conspiracy of the media, police, and voters.
But then again, I could be part of the conspiracy, too...
Thanks for the kind words. I'm both a Postal Inspector and a Propellerhead. You're dead on - we take Mail Fraud very seriously and there is no parole in Federal prison - only 2 weeks a year for good behavior. I like to think of it as vacation time from prison.
Now if our management would realign the dollar loss figures to allow us to work cases where large numbers of folks each lose relatively small amounts each ($20 - $50), we could really serve the public better.
It's sad when the US Attorney's office in my district will prosecute a $25,000 case but our agency managers in DC don't like us to investigate anything with the loss total under $100,000.
Oh well, they're PHB's just like managers in the private sector.
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There are actually two separate investigative agencies within the USPS. The Postal Inspection Service investigates Mail Fraud, External Crimes (done by non-employees against the USPS or Postal Employees), drugs trafficked through the mail, and employee assaults. The Postal Police are a uniformed division of the Inspection Service and perform security at postal facilities. The USPS Office of Inspector General was formed in 1997 by the direction of Congressman Grassley. It's investigations of internal theft and financial auditing used to be done by Inspectors. But rather than having the agency head (The Chief Postal Inspector) report to the Board of Governors instead of the Postmaster General, the Congressman set up an entire new bureaucracy to support the agents who investigate internal fraud, waste and abuse. So while it sounds wasteful to have 2 investigative agencies, it was mandated by Congress, who is happy to spend the revenues of the Postal Service.
Narrowly defined, Snapter works as advertised. It really does take the warp out of images, and it will also take out fingers on the sides if you need to hold the book open while photographing. The pdf files it saves are just images, not OCR'd text. That's a big drawback.
He mistook me for a executive wannabe and asked me about energizing the dynamics in our work group. I told him that people kept talking about thinking outside the box, but since we are in the delivery business we should think ABOUT the box.
The guy looked like he just had a revelation. Something tells me he'd architected a meaningful world class enterprise strategy (and appropriated my sarcasm as a new catch phrase at the same time).
Thank you for injecting reason into this thread!! I deal with US District Court often in child porn cases and they have a very simple criteria:
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on the other hand, will get their interest.
If the only place CP exists is in the cache, there is certainly plausible deniability that you intended to possess it and a charge will not be filed. They realize what browser hijackers and popups can do.
I regularly see suspects with GB's of CP in meticulously catalogged directories and on DVD's. The "oops" defense evaporates.
Some folks miss asking a basic question: How did the agent/detective/deputy come to believe that a specific person has cp? Despite what the tinfoil hat crowd thinks, searching for "small breasts" in Google photos will not lead to a search warrant and computer seizure. Publicly seeking an 11 year old girl for sex http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/neighborhoods/st
Anyone remember The Wacko Cracko Brothers who where supposed to have relaunched TAP and crush Phrack? Nineteen later Phrack is still on the verge of disappearing.
It was a hell of a ride. Randy, Craig and John (Forest Ranger) were good friends. I hope they are doing well.
Another poster already said it, now most of the things we wrote about would be considered terrorism by the same folks who (oops) missed the REAL terrorists and later found that invoking the "T" word gets press coverage and unlimited funding from Congress.
As long as there are secrets there will be a group of adolescents who will find it. Whether they call it "Phrack" or not is less important than sharing the information.
Hats off to the contributors who probably had no idea that Metal Shop Private would sort of live on for almost two decades.
The hacker formerly known as Data Line.
The local press in St. Louis covered the antics of these candidates. One of them was having a hard time getting arrested. He kept throwing himself into the riot shields of the police and bouncing off. Then another serious candidate who looked like Santa Claus, but dressed only in tan shorts ranted and raved to reporters about the eeeeevil police removing his campaign banner that was leaning against the security fence. He was not arrested. When even the mainstream media depicts the actions of your candidate alongside those of eccentrics, maybe it's a problem with the actions of your candidate that are the problem and not a conspiracy of the media, police, and voters. But then again, I could be part of the conspiracy, too...
Thanks for the kind words. I'm both a Postal Inspector and a Propellerhead. You're dead on - we take Mail Fraud very seriously and there is no parole in Federal prison - only 2 weeks a year for good behavior. I like to think of it as vacation time from prison.
Now if our management would realign the dollar loss figures to allow us to work cases where large numbers of folks each lose relatively small amounts each ($20 - $50), we could really serve the public better.
It's sad when the US Attorney's office in my district will prosecute a $25,000 case but our agency managers in DC don't like us to investigate anything with the loss total under $100,000.
Oh well, they're PHB's just like managers in the private sector.