Why do some vendors refuse to give out tracking over messages if your going to see the number anyway when the pack lands? I have some ideas but I'm just curious as to what the vendor's reasons are.
Vendor Shipping OPSEC Question
Why do some vendors refuse to give out tracking over messages if your going to see the number anyway when the pack lands? I have some ideas but I'm just curious as to what the vendor's reasons are.
[2 Points] superduperburneracct:
[2 Points] Theeconomist1:
Protecting the customer as others noted for plausible deniability purposes. Also some believe that incessant tracking can lead to a flagged pack.
Mostly if LE were to make a purchase and get tracking right away they could find the point of origin and intercept other packs mailed by the vendor at the same time. Once you get your pack most of the others are long gone from the origin. This is why it's important for vendors to switch up mail drops frequently.
Imagine if a vendor dropped 20 packs at same mailbox. Sends tracking immediately. LE could examine all packs originating at same place at same time and grab them all.
[1 Points] TopFl1ght:
Also, don't want Joe Shmoe trying to check tracking over Tor, which can lead to a few scenarios.
[1 Points] None:
The customer can lose plausible deniability, flag themselves by accessing through TOR, and/or the vendor can get profiled if the customer is LE and has the assets to investigate what post-office the package was sent from then check cameras, etc, etc
[1 Points] xSwrvs:
There's several reasons but a big one is it gives an origin location so if LE wanted to do controlled buys from big vendors they would have a basic location of the operation
So you don't implicate yourself and lose plausible deniablility. Also, so they can lie about when they shipped lol. Use myusps if you want to passively track.