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The USPS is running a 'covert' program to monitor Americans' social media posts

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Re: The USPS is running a 'covert' program to monitor Americans' social media posts

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I work in cyber security ML engineering (open for interviews, hmu) and frequently see federal contractor firms hiring for cyber data/engineer positions for USPS. Always puzzled me. example: https://jobs.rtx.com/job/-/-/4679/4267185376?codes=INDEED

chill https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-provides-u-s-posta...

recent NVIDIA conference talks will detail some use cases.

are you interested in federal contract jobs tho? hmu

Re: The USPS is running a 'covert' program to monitor Americans' social media posts

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>They were created to meet the specific law enforcement needs of each agency. Dept of Education agents investigate misuse of Dept of Education funds, That's a really charitable way of saying "handle petty stuff that the FBI can't justify spending resources on". Every specialty police department exists for this reason and this reason only. Because the mission is often so petty they wouldn't get any resources if it was…

Makes a lot of sense to me that each department handles their own law enforcement, and can set the priorities they prefer. One centralized Federal Police Department would be a single point of failure and bureaucratic nightmare. Imagine if there were not State and local police departments. Just the FBI managing every shoplifting arrest in the country.

On the flip side, there are plenty of countries that do just have a national police force, or a handful of regional departments, and don't have tens of thousands of independent police forces like America does. They tend to do just fine.

Re: The USPS is running a 'covert' program to monitor Americans' social media posts

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This is a dumb argument because they were at least trying to IMPLEMENT A COUP. It seems pretty clear to me that they would have assaulted and killed representatives if they would have gotten the chance which they very nearly did. Also, don't call them "protestors". The nicest term I can think of for them would be rebels since they were in open rebellion to the United States. Some people at the capital that day were p…

Funny "coup" where none of the plotters were armed.

Does incompetence and failure bear on intent? I don't think that usually flies in court.

Re: The USPS is running a 'covert' program to monitor Americans' social media posts

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I work in cyber security ML engineering (open for interviews, hmu) and frequently see federal contractor firms hiring for cyber data/engineer positions for USPS. Always puzzled me. example: https://jobs.rtx.com/job/-/-/4679/4267185376?codes=INDEED

chill https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-provides-u-s-posta... recent NVIDIA conference talks will detail some use cases. are you interested in federal contract jobs tho? hmu

thank you, but I dont think I qualify for federal due to visa.

Re: The USPS is running a 'covert' program to monitor Americans' social media posts

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Why do you believe that unless they're paying their developers "250k-500k a year", they wouldn't have built something useful?

Because analyzing all of social media with efficiency and effectively is really hard.

It implies that only an extremely highly paid developer can write efficient code which I think just isn't true.

Re: The USPS is running a 'covert' program to monitor Americans' social media posts

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USPS? You mean the bankrupt federal agency that we all heard was going extinct? They can afford this? Hmm... (And they certainty can't afford it, which is why druggies exclusively ship their goods with USPS over FedEx / UPS or any other private carrier). God bless them!

Re: The USPS is running a 'covert' program to monitor Americans' social media posts

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It is also the only agency named in the constitution. The others are all fluff. At least that’s what I was taught!

Census is in the Constitution as well

Pretty the sure the Census is mostly conducted by the USPS though.

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It is also the only agency named in the constitution. The others are all fluff. At least that’s what I was taught!

Interesting, are you sure about this? The only clause I find in the constitution mentions post offices and post roads (perhaps that's what you're thinking of?), but nothing about their security. To my knowledge federal agencies were only established by the Administrative Procedures Act after WWII (which is basically the "constitution" of federal agencies), but I'm not sure if there's other similar terminology that mi…

Yeah buddy. The security service is just like internal affairs for the USPS. It's actually pretty creepy inside the USPS they enter through different doors, they have catwalks with two-way mirrors, etc. The SSF and DCF or whatever they're called (been a while) are super creepy to observe. You are CONSTANTLY being watch when you work there, but unseen faces. There is a reason 'going postal' became a thing. Imagine that atmosphere!

Re: The USPS is running a 'covert' program to monitor Americans' social media posts

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Funny "coup" where none of the plotters were armed.

Does incompetence and failure bear on intent? I don't think that usually flies in court.

Is it remotely plausible to believe a group of unarmed protestors were seriously attempting to gain control over the most powerful superpower the world has ever seen with their barehands? This narrative strains credulity, counselor.
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