Re: "Secret" Postal Device stolen

Bill Stewart wrote:
 
> >>>Postal Service offers $25,000 reward for stolen . . . something
 
> I was also guessing keys - truck keys are a less subtle target than
> box storage keys, and telling every thug in the country that
> mail trucks are an easy target, just take the keys from the carrier,
> seems almost worth sounding really stupid in public to avoid.
> They did say that it wasn't something they carried in their pockets,
> but do mail carriers hang their keys on their belts?

  Mail carriers in some areas carry keys for buildings with security
doors (sometimes Master keys).
  Or perhaps they've taken over the CIA's crack distribution route.

  Is anyone on the list willing to 'knock off' a couple of mail
carriers and get back to us with a definitive answer on this?
 (Doesn't this kind of thing fall under the moderator's job
description?)

Toto

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In list.cypherpunks, toto@sk.sympatico.ca writes:

>> >>>Postal Service offers $25,000 reward for stolen . . . something

>   Mail carriers in some areas carry keys for buildings with security
> doors (sometimes Master keys).

In Minneapolis and Anchorage (the two cities of which I have knowledge)
mail carriers have a key that opens not only apartment-style mailboxes,
but little boxes on the outside of apartment buildings that hold a key
to the building's lobby.  Snag one of those keys and a large portion of
the city opens its doors to you.  (some buildings have further locked
doors beyond the mailbox lobby to counter this threat)
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           Roy M. Silvernail     [ ]     roy@scytale.com
DNRC Minister Plenipotentiary of All Things Confusing, Software Division
PGP Public Key fingerprint =  31 86 EC B9 DB 76 A7 54  13 0B 6A 6B CC 09 18 B6
      Key available from pubkey@scytale.com, which works now

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C'punks,

On Sun, 2 Feb 1997, Roy M. Silvernail wrote:

> In Minneapolis and Anchorage (the two cities of which I have knowledge)
> mail carriers have a key that opens not only apartment-style mailboxes,
> but little boxes on the outside of apartment buildings that hold a key
> to the building's lobby.  Snag one of those keys and a large portion of
> the city opens its doors to you.  (some buildings have further locked
> doors beyond the mailbox lobby to counter this threat)

So much for key escrow.


 S a n d y

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