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Further to the Kremlin purchasing 20 Cyrillic/Latin typewriters and sparking a media frenzy, RT reports that:
An increasing number of businesses are opting out of staying virtually connected and are reverting back to old technologies to avoid being spied on. The move has led to a surge in typewriter sales in Germany.
German typewriter makers such as Bandermann and Olympia have cited climbing sales amid NSA spying revelations. "We sell about 10,000 [typewriters] every year," Bandermann manager Rolf Bonnen told The Local. "We've seen an increase because Brother left the market [in 2012]," he added. The company's sales jumped by one-third over last year since 2012.
Triumph Adler, which is part of Bandermann, began advertising its typewriters as "Bug proof. NSA proof" in 2013 in order to attract more consumers.
Typewriters aren't quite bug proof because analysis can be done on the sound of each strike, or even by simply removing the ribbon which can hold an imprint of the most recently typed document. A larger concern is to be careful about photocopying. Modern, proprietary photocopiers have hard disks which are huge for the task of photocopying. And in a separate issue, some photocopiers have issues when copying fonts and monospaced fonts in particular.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Wednesday July 23 2014, @08:28PM
Every typewriter has a fairly peculiar way of printing, due to alignments, wear, and so on.
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(Score: 5, Interesting) by mendax on Thursday July 24 2014, @12:28AM
Yep, I know all that already. They have to find me first to find the typewriter. If they find me, finding the typewriter is rather academic at that point. Fortunately, Americans do not live in a place [wikipedia.org] where every typewriter is registered and its typeface and its imperfections recorded by the police [wikipedia.org] before it can be sold to someone.
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