After a flurry of headlines involving international espionage and
intelligence leaks, Russia is taking an old-fashioned approach to the
new face of security: the humble typewriter.
The Telegraph reports
that the Federal Guard Service (FSO) has placed an order for 20
German-made electric typewriters. The FSO is an agency tasked with
Russian communications and President Vladimir Putin's safety.
The
FSO declined to comment to The Telegraph on the reason behind the
order, but told Russia's Izvestiya paper it was concerned with
protecting their national secrets from leaking.
"After
scandals with the distribution of secret documents by WikiLeaks, the
exposes by Edward Snowden, reports about Dmitry Medvedev being bugged
during his visit to the G20 London summit (in 2009), it has been decided
to expand the practice of creating paper documents," the source told
Izvestiya.
That is what I call creativity. Obviously, printing physical documents alone ensures that data isn't
stored on a computer drive, preventing anyone from making a copy,
hacking into servers full of confidential data, or leaking said data to
the press. Not to mention that you can easily hold accountable whoever is in charge of typing and archiving classified documents for any leaks if they manage to make it out of the chain of custody.
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