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About five years ago, some agency of the German government started using typewriters so the NSA (and others) couldn’t hack them.


13 posted on 08/16/2019 5:32:36 PM PDT by Kipp
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the German government started using typewriters so the NSA (and others) couldn’t hack them.

If they were electric typewriters they radiated an RF signal.

No RF signal is secure from detection, and even it's presence is meaningful to a Sigint analyst.

24 posted on 08/16/2019 6:16:35 PM PDT by ASA Vet (Make American Intelligence Great Again. Bring back ASA.)
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