Federal agency has moved to paper records, not accepting digital files via email

Probably trying to slow down approval processing for permits.

The Supreme court ruled they can't legally block some of the permitting they have been.

They can however change internal policy to slow things down so that the approval takes forever.

That's my guess.

Well, the USPS is a highly secure and dependable operation.

the Constitution says the federal government has to communicate with us through that agency, not darpa.

They're afraid they'll get hacked and exposed.

That spies on you

This sounds like a Trump thing. This is the kind of stuff his security team was lobbying for.

CONTINUITY OF

It would be very helpful to know which company is sending information by mail-only, as this might indicate a number of clues.

So, OP...Which company has the EPA relagated to snail mail?

Paper format - much easier to alter, destroy, change, twist, these public records that belong to The People.

Makes me think the EPA is about to get extremely aggressive in enforcing Al Gore, and the tree hugger agenda..

chinese hackers about to be cut out of the loop.
digital is bullshit.it should all be paper records.no more falsifying records!

I don't use computers for any papers or transactions.

I pay by check or cash, and I get all my bank statements on paper, which I file in my records.

I refuse to go paperless.

Everybody is losing trust and faith in the Computer Revolution.

When you get an email with an attachment from some silly unknown random individual you have no idea who it is or if you even ever met the individual, do you just automatically open the attachment ?

Most likely you do not nor would you ever. So why then question an organization that has literally tens of millions of documents on their systems at risk of suffering an attack from some unhinged roundup angry fool that could cause lots of damage from a Trojan or even more complicated worm created from the tools released by Snowden ?

No instead your first thought is some silly role playing fantasy involving the “grid” going down. Depending on whatever business you have to do with the EPA, it’s true that some information they require could contain proprietary information under several scenarios and the internet is not a secure format.

And here is a little secret for ya, much of the world functioned for a very long time with much success without the internet or a “grid” like our current electrical system and I am confident that once all the preppers shoot each other or accidentally shoot themselves in their bunkers that the rest of the world would pick it all up and move forward and do it again with success

That is a very reasonable assumption, especially after the recent SCOTUS ruling.

I can't name the company, but it is in the cannabis industry.

Thank you very much for your enlightened input! I never thought of any of the points you brought up, I feel so much smarter now!
The EPA has accepted emails with attachments for years, it has been within the last few weeks it moved to this.
Accepting emails from a schmo with a generic email address that you don't know is one thing, however, accepting an email with attachments from a multi billion dollar a year company that you interact with on a near daily basis is a completely different scenario.
I'm also not talking about 3 or 4 documents, I'm talking about hundreds of pages that now have to be shipped in boxes.

Again, thank you for being so kind as to dispense your wisdom, which only you possess.

Once all the peppers shoot each other.... This website is filled with full retard leftists now. The extreme missing logic is a classic leftist signal

The same people who allow glyphosate in your food?!

Which is completely illegal in Europe?!

That fda?

Go figure.

This makes sense and seems likely. TPTB seem to be intentionally creating bottlenecks in order to destroy productivity.

The federal Government should aggressively pursue the security of internet. Those that doing the hacking. They are so bold that they laugh at you. They must not ignore a single event.
The punishment must be life time when the Federal Authorities catch them. I personally provided quality information to authorities of those who has been terrorizing us. They want to do illegal things but they run RAT in your Computer and other devices, to use your system for their illegal activities without your knowledge or permission. Even today I counted
some 50 attempts on this hackers part. For how long I can be successful to protect myself. For him if he pay 30 or 40 dollars to someone who can do the job and he steal say $1000 from me. He is still ahead. I know he stole $40000 from people and things went wrong. He committed murders. But he is not afraid. He got caught twice. He is super expert in lies. Gets away.
It is not Trust anymore. We found RAT many times in our computer system. When we followed it, we could pretty much tell who is behind it. specifically when you watch their behavior.

Being officially afraid to receive a simple email is a dangerous message for the world, it's like saying: "we are so incompetent that even an email can destroy us, don't even waste resources using b0mb5."

Prepping for the next toilet paper shortage.

We have had the capacity to use digital signature authentication and encryption for e-mail since the 1990s.

The infrastructure is already there, however, it is purposely made difficult to use to impossible to use as secure email digital signatures are made cost prohibitive to the average home consumer. Why? The information dragnet. Can't make money on email containing gibberish passing through the gateways.

PHYSICAL records are best, and the Russians still keep everything this way in locked filing cabinets inside vaults.

Computer technology is just this experimental thing to them, as one of the few powers that can actually build it all from scratch.

Things are going to go more this way.

CD Burning is still as relevant as ever too, and the developer of the compact disk actually still alive, although 90+.

Ding ding ding

Might they be worried about being hacked and having ask their dirty secrets become known

And losing their pensions as a result


One can only dream

There certainly are r in sky in communicating electronically. Sounds like that company is a lot more on top of their security than say AmEx etc. I read sometime 4 or 5years ago that Russian departments had returned to the typewriters and paper for some reports letters.