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gweimer:

--- Quote from: 4stringer77 on June 28, 2017, 04:06:48 PM ---Knowing my Sunn will still work after a nuclear attack makes me feel so much better!  ;D
Russia has also started using typewriters again. They're much harder to hack.

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4stringer77:
Monkey see, monkey do.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2701392/Typewriter-sales-boom-Germany-thousands-basics-bid-avoid-U-S-spies-wake-NSA-allegations.html

Pilgrim:
That story is from 2014 and includes this comment: "Last year Triumph Adler, part of Bandermann, made a YouTube video announcing its machines were 'Bug proof. NSA proof.'"

Which tells you the high regard the rest of the world has for US security. They are not interested in having us look over their shoulders.

I remember the thrill of trying to read the 3rd carbon of a typewritten document. Not.

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