ICH BIN EIN TYPELINER
Posted on 07/23/2014 7:09:30 PM PDT by Enterprise
Earlier in July, German politicians said they were considering going back to old-fashioned manual typewriters for confidential documents, in order to protect national secrets from American NSA spooks.
Patrick Sensburg, chair of the German parliament’s inquiry into alleged NSA spying, said committee members are considering new security measures and are seriously thinking about abandoning email and returning to old school typewriters.
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The return of typewriter ribbons and carbon paper?
I’ve been thinking of looking for my manual Royal Typewriter. Built in 1927 and weight a quarter ton. I hid it somewhere, maybe to weigh the house down. If this trend continues, you may find young people studying Greg’s Shorthand along with entering typing contests.
And WHITE OUT! Woo Hoo!
Guess they never heard of Tempest.
I bet the NSA owns those IBM Selectrics...
I actually have one.
Still works.
Lol....
Had an old Remington that I loved and it would be much more secure than these monitored electronic gadgets.
A security expert might advise them of the hazards of using electric typewriters regarding tempest. Not to worry though if they are going to be using the old non electric typewriters. Maybe a few jobs for clerk typists will come back.
They made a top secret version of the selectric to prevent spies from intercepting what was typed on them by measuring the change in voltage on the power line while typing,
Just don’t connect the computer to then Internet and it can’t spy on you...
True enough.
I have good memories of using the old ones. Kind of like someone who likes old cars.
Same story used a couple of times on “Ben Mattlock.”
The Germans are right on this.
Let the NSA try to snarf up typed documents through secure carriers.
Some things you can’t just effortlessly skim and store in Utah.
Add TYPEWRITER to the list of NSA spying/search history red flag words along with PRESSURE COOKER, and BACKPACK. Something to hide.
Going back to a typewriter must be an experience since there’s nothing to put a squiggly red line under spelling errors, and no backspace key to facilitate in correcting errors.
ICH BIN EIN TYPELINER
Actually there IS a backspace key but it doesn’t correct an error. You had to erase the typo and type it over.
Later model Selectrics were available in self-correcting.
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