Paranoid postal people

[mtbc]

So that I could validate my home address with the USPS, they generated me a shared secret with seven letters and thirteen digits. Even if everybody in the world were to try a guess at this secret on every second of their lives, it would remain extremely unlikely that anybody would discover it. Either the USPS has a most alarming threat model for the impersonation of residents, or they love an excuse to make people type random nonsense carefully. Perhaps nobody told them about rate limiting of attempts.

Comments

[wpadmirer]

You know, my bank isn't that paranoid.

[emperor]

Did they post this to you? Maybe they figured they might as well use up the space on the paper :)

[mtbc]

Ha, they did indeed. (-: