Kremlin turns back to typewriters to avoid leaks

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AFP/AFP/File - An office worker types out an affidavit in Mumbai, on February 15, 2011. A Russian state service in charge of safeguarding Kremlin communications is looking to purchase an array of old-fashioned

A Russian state service in charge of safeguarding Kremlin communications is looking to purchase an array of old-fashioned typewriters to prevent leaks from computer hardware, sources said Thursday.

The throwback to the paper-strewn days of Soviet bureaucracy has reportedly been prompted by the publication of secret documents by anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks and the revelations leaked by former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden.

The Federal Guard Service, which is also in charge of protecting President Vladimir Putin, is looking to spend just over 486,000 rubles ($14,800) to buy a number of electric typewriters, according to the site of state procurement agency, zakupki.gov.ru.

Unlike printers, every typewriter has its own individual pattern of type so it is possible to link every document to a machine used to type it, Izvestia said.

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I would think that no typewriters had been built anywhere in the world since about 1996, I saw one in car booty few years back and they were asking 50p I wish I had it, I used to write love storey by hand despite I had computer 30 years a go for getting caught by my misses, I wonder when the new typewriters will available on market again? A very good idea

[Meat-Head]

Word from meat fm abiut sux minths ago all discontiuned nla

off topic

love the sound of a dot matrix printer

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I used to write love storey by hand

I have done a few loves stories by hand over the years as well mate..

[Canker_Canison]

But it's not going to stop people with cameras from taking photos of these typed pages, or use photocopiers.

I don't remember seeing hairy palms at the typewriter of any love story... maybe a knarly old fist, locked up with arthritis, that had a hole the size of a pencil between the finger & palm...... Just not sure which one of you it relates to

[Cod3waX]

Tipex company will be laughin now

Electronic typewriter works like a computer? Are u able to type ur document out then say type it to the page? avoiding the hassle of spelling mistakes?

[Meat-Head]

Yes some ekectronic typewrites, store one line then print