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German NSA Committee May Turn To Typewriters To Stop Leaks
mpicpp (3454017) writes with news that Germany may be joining Russia in a paranoid switch from computers to typewriters for sensitive documents. From the article: Patrick Sensburg, chairman of the German parliament's National Security Agency investigative committee, now says he's considering expanding the use of manual typewriters to carry out his group's work. ... Sensburg said that the committee is taking its operational security very seriously. "In fact, we already have [a typewriter], and it's even a non-electronic typewriter," he said. If Sensburg's suggestion takes flight, the country would be taking a page out of the Russian playbook. Last year, the agency in charge of securing communications from the Kremlin announced that it wanted to spend 486,000 rubles (about $14,800) to buy 20 electric typewriters as a way to avoid digital leaks.
True, but it would make "first post" a lovely double entendre.
Scruting the inscrutable for over 50 years.
Get a doctor to write memos with a pen. Completely indecipherable.
Once they are done typing the documents they will have a secretary scan them and sent via email....
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
You laugh, but it just goes to show that you have no idea what kind of trouble we are having in integrating Internet Explorer with that project.