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by rrggrr 3387 days ago
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.

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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/