the tor scam - Re: AP deconstructed: Why it has not happened yet, and will not

[jim bell]

    On Tuesday, August 7, 2018, 5:05:46 PM PDT, juan <juan.g71 at gmail.com> wrote:  

    as a side note of sorts 
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/03/us/postal-service-confirms-photographing-all-us-mail.html
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"But Mr. Donahoe said that the images had been used “a couple of times” by law enforcement to trace letters in criminal cases, including one involving ricin-laced letters sent to President Obama and Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York. The images of letters and packages are generally stored for a week to 30 days and then destroyed, he told the A.P."
[end of quote from article]

About that article.
I think it's curious that they claim to "destroy' the images after "a week to 30 days".   If there are about 1 billion mailed items each year, and it takes 50 kilobytes to store an image (wild ass guess, and assuming some compression), that would amount to 50 terabytes of data:  A bit more than 4 of the largest-capacity of hard drives currently sold.
 https://www.wdc.com/products/internal-storage/wd-gold-enterprise-class-hard-drive.html?gclid=CjwKCAjwhqXbBRAREiwAucoo-yp9zBDxr1hrojtP7nXAw8Trmtx4-9N8m5DAecI3hqQeTEyGeHWYjBoCg_IQAvD_BwE
Think about it.  If YOU had access to this data, would YOU erase it, if the storage only cost about $2000 per year?
  Jim Bell

  
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