German politicians are considering a return to using manual typewriters for sensitive documents in the wake of the US surveillance scandal.
The head of the Bundestag’s parliamentary inquiry into NSA activity in Germany said in an interview with the Morgenmagazin TV programme that he and his colleagues were seriously thinking of ditching email completely.
Asked “Are you considering typewriters” by the interviewer on Monday night, the Christian Democrat politician Patrick Sensburg said: “As a matter of fact, we have – and not electronic models either”. “Really?” the surprised interviewer checked. “Yes, no joke,” Sensburg responded.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/15/germany-typewriters-espionage-nsa-spying-surveillance
But if the NSA gets hold of the typewriters ribbon then they can still hack into what has been typed…
A stylus and wax tablet, maybe?
By: paul178 - 16th July 2014 at 13:27
Perhaps a modern version of the enigma machine could be a possibility?
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July 15, 2014 at 11:45 pm