On Tuesday, August 7, 2018, 5:05:46 PM PDT, juan <[email protected]>
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
