“German politicians are considering a return to using manual typewriters for sensitive documents in the wake of the US surveillance scandal.
The head of the Bundestag’s parliamentary inquiry into NSA activity in Germany said in an interview with the Morgenmagazin TV programme that he and his colleagues were seriously thinking of ditching email completely.”
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“Germany ‘may revert to typewriters’ to counter hi-tech espionage,” Philip Oltermann, The Guardian
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