Examining the covidtests.gov architecture

Re:Examining the covidtests.gov architecture by tyingq on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @08:15PM (#30002951)

I'm guessing some shady entrepreneur that has somehow compiled a bunch of unique shipping names and addresses to stockpile covid tests and try to sell them.

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Re:Examining the covidtests.gov architecture by johnbatch on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @10:09PM (#30003984)

Its also the top 3 on other non covid website like the DEP of commerce -

https://analytics.usa.gov/commerce/

You can get a JSON of the data also and see they have “ZZ” and “not set” as two cities excluded from the front dashboard. https://analytics.usa.gov/data/live/top-cities-realtime.json

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Re:Examining the covidtests.gov architecture by jjeaff on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @08:35PM (#30003126)

No doubt this is happening to some extent. But it does appear that the USPS requires valid residential addresses in order to send a mask. The USPS does have a database of actual addresses that they validate against. You can't simply send to something that looks valid.

Perhaps some good citizen hacker created a bot that automatically submitted a request for every address in town.

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Re:Examining the covidtests.gov architecture by hoppyhoppy2 on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @08:50PM (#30003261)

a minor correction just in case anyone's confused: this site is for ordering free covid tests to be delivered to your home; the free masks will be distributed starting next week at locations like pharmacies and health clinics

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