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.

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Re:So what? they can be tapped to.

[AHuxley]

Re the human factor.
Thats a huge risk in Germany. Generations of post ww2 Germans know nothing but helping the NSA and GCHQ over their decades in every level of the West and later German bureaucracies.
The men and woman who helped the UK and USA post 1950's would have chosen like minded staff to work with them or replace them.
Thats the entire upper structures of vital German security lost to 5+ other Five Eyes countries by default over decades.
Then you have the tame German political leaders watched, dropped, advanced thanks to insider help.
The East Germans got some staff next to generations of top West German political leaders or top NATO staff.
The US and UK got all the communication networks of West Germany and then Germany with the help of cleared Germans.