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by bitmapbrother 3391 days ago
Nice try CIA and Intel, but I'm not falling for this.
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and.... what alternative could you possibly have? There's a reason the Russians reportedly moved to typewriters.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/11/russia-reverts...

The entire computing ecosystem appears to be P0wned by various intelligence services. And, its not unique to the CIA or NSA. The Chinese are assumed to have backdoors into most of what ships from their country.

There's a reason the Russians reportedly moved to typewriters.

Hopefully the Russians still remember how they bugged US typewriters in the US Embassy in Moscow. Then they'll be able to check that their own typewriters aren't bugged in a similar fashion: http://www.cryptomuseum.com/covert/bugs/selectric/

LOL!

It's pretty bloody sad state that we're in that your comment cannot be dismissed as some tin-foil-hat-lunatic, but very reasonable skepticism nowadays.

What's a little self-installation of malware between a spy agency and a citizen who has nothing to hide?
So who do you trust?