Looks like the Kremlin has seen "enemy of the state" and went old school...

[tangent4ronpaul]

Kremlin's response to Snowden's revelations of NSA surveillance: switch to typewriters
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/07/11/kremlin-response-to-snowden-revelations-nsa-surveillance-switch-to-typewriters/

Got an old typewriter in your garage? Call the Kremlin, they need some.

Russia's Federal Protective Service, a KGB successor agency in charge of protecting President Vladimir Putin and his officials, has placed an order for 20 typewriters and is ready to pay $750 each for them, according to Thursday's report in Izvestia.

The Kremlin-connected daily said the agency, known by its Russian acronym FSO, believes it's necessary to expand the use of typewriters following disclosures of sweeping U.S. National Security Agency surveillance programs by leaker Edward Snowden and earlier publication of classified documents by secret-spilling website WikiLeaks.

It said that typewriters have been used in particular for printing drafts of some official documents and reports presented to Putin.

The FSO had no comment on the report.

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[Nobexliberty]

In one of my post in a thread about protecting yourself from the NSA i posted a picture of a typewriter, seems the Kremlin reads my post:p

[Warrior_of_Freedom]

isn't that a bit excessive? can just buy old computers and NOT hook them up to the internet

[Nobexliberty]

isn't that a bit excessive? can just buy old computers and NOT hook them up to the internet Typewriters are cooler.

[Reason]

Physical documents are indeed easier to protect.

[Acala]

isn't that a bit excessive? can just buy old computers and NOT hook them up to the internet

Maybe, but they still emit an electronic signature. Can the NSA read it? If they can't it isn't for lack of trying.

[Reason]

http://www.truecrypt.org/

[tangent4ronpaul]

Maybe, but they still emit an electronic signature. Can the NSA read it? If they can't it isn't for lack of trying.

http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/cryptologic_spectrum/tempest.pdf
http://www.sans.org/reading_room/whitepapers/privacy/introduction-tempest_981
http://www.cryptome.org/nsa-tempest.htm

-t