The U.S. Postal Service Seeks Bitcoin Experts to Counter Darknet Markets

Feb 8, 2017

It appears the United States Postal Service is determined not to be the courier of choice for drug dealers any longer.

Judging by a recent job listing sent to the information security community, the United States Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) — the law enforcement arm of the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) — wants to sniff out users of darknet markets that send their packages by mail. Applicants for the job, listed as “Investigative (Internet) Analyst”, are expected to know their way around bitcoin — the currency of choice on the darkweb — a as well as other tools typically used by darknets, like Tor.

Although the job listing doesn’t appear to be published online any more, according to Deep Dot Web the USPIS is specifically looking for applicants able to unmask pseudonymous users of dark net markets:

“Candidates shall be capable of performing a prioritized assessment of the data to identify the most critical and reliable data in order to identify bitcoins, locations, accounts, services, travels, email addresses, IP addresses and other pattern of life data in an effort to determine physical attribution of an Internet identity.”

Credits:-https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/us-postal-service-seeks-bitcoin-experts-counter-darknet-markets/