even if true it makes sense? if the information is that sensitive, you probably shouldn’t be writing it down on hackable infrastructure.
been seeing some talk about an internet implosion happening sometime relatively soon. might be most security agencies will default to older hardware in the future. I also know next to nothing about this shit, just throwing ideas at the wall
Reddit: “Haha those look at those stoopid rooskies, using typewriters for sensitive documents! How primitive they are!”
Also Reddit: “REEEE HOW COULD HILLARY EMAILS COULD BE LEAKED IT MUST BE EVIL RUSSIAN SUPERHACKERS SANDWORM AND BEAR!”
beta opsecless emailers vs chad hacker typewriters
the same reason why the US (and probably other countries too) keeps a lot of sensitive data on oldass magnetic tape drives. they’re relatively cheap, hold a ton of data, and last for an extremely long time if properly stored
Feels like an AI wrote that headline
This is another instance of “may be technically correct, but the context put around it makes it so that it is presented in had faith”.
Every military does this. Or something similar. There are things that are so secret, and so dangerous if it gets out, that no computer, no matter how secure, can be trusted with it, so it’s written down on a physical medium only. It’s why the US president famously has an encapsulated card with the nuclear launch codes on it, that he needs to physically break open and read, rather than a text document stored on a laptop, for example.
makes sense, making the information completely physical makes it impossible to be hacked
