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jakub_g on June 2, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Yahoo Announces Public Disclosure of National Secu...

Looks more like low quality / highly compressed scan but I might be wrong.

Anyway, typewriter is not a bad idea, probably more secure than any computer with internet connection or USB port ;)

zaroth on June 2, 2016 [–]

Don't be so sure! There was an amazing Soviet hack of the US embassy typewriters back in the day. There's a great writeup here: http://www.cryptomuseum.com/covert/bugs/selectric/

jakub_g on June 4, 2016 | [–]

Awesome link, thanks!

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