The USPS Website

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When he became Web master for the Postal Service about 12 years ago, Harold “Pete” Stark said security concerns were basic.

“Our early concerns were hackers and defacements,” Stark said Thursday at the Federal Information Assurance Conference being held at the University of Maryland.

Today, the USPS Web site www.usps.com has gone from being merely a Web presence to a services portal handling financial transactions. It averages 1.5 million visitors a day and generated $425 million in gross revenues in fiscal 2006.

“The threats we face are more sophisticated now than what I had to worry about in the early days,” Stark said...

full article: http://www.washingtontechnology.com/news...585-1.html

[BellisimaJ.]

Interesting article, Regic---TY!!

It sounds as though they at the least are making a stronger effort than PP/ebay to prevent data loss/dissemination, and are attempting to stay ahead of the curve.