Back To The Future: Kremlin NSA-Proofs Memos With TYPEWRITERS! - Granite Grok

Back To The Future: Kremlin NSA-Proofs Memos With TYPEWRITERS!

Triumph_Adler_Twen_2614936b You just can’t make this stuff up!

Reuters and the UK Telegraph have a story on the plans by Russia’s Federal Guard Service (FSO) to revert to typewriters as a means of avoiding electronic eavesdropping:

An FSO source told Izvestiya newspaper: “After scandals with the distribution of secret documents by WikiLeaks, the exposes by Edward Snowden, reports about Dmitry Medvedev being listened in on during his visit to the G20 summit in London, it has been decided to expand the practice of creating paper documents.
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[F]rom the point of view of preserving secrets the most primitive methods are preferable: a person’s hand and a pen, or a typewriter.”

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