On: Rethinking The Postal System

[wereHamster]

SilkRoad customers and merchants would love this!

[esrauch → wereHamster]

Is that actually true? If some police organization actually does a honeypot on SR, they would presumably be able to get the address from the USPS easily. SR getting raided or hacked is alleviated by public key encryption, and this couldn't replace that since the USPS would presumably keep historical records that would be accessible to law enforcement.

[frasierman → wereHamster]

Well, maybe... If the police were to work with the postal service, they could find the originating post office.

Then again, they could more or less do this now, and they don't.

[bdunbar → frasierman]

I'm pretty sure the postal police take a dim view of people using USPS to ship illegal goods.

Or at least I've always assumed they do.