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Re:Answers to your questions about Apple and security by Spooky23 on Monday February 22, 2016 @12:08PM (#11152341)
The real answer is to do a Putin -- buy a typewriter.

If you're doing something that will attract negative political attention, mail a letter.

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Re:Answers to your questions about Apple and security by ryukafalz on Monday February 22, 2016 @12:52PM (#11152724)
>The real answer is to do a Putin -- buy a typewriter.

Even that might not help:

http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/10/how-soviets-used-ibm...

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Re:Answers to your questions about Apple and security by cmurf on Monday February 22, 2016 @01:04PM (#11152845)
USPS logs all mail, i.e. metadata. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/04/us/monitoring-of-snail-mai...
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Re:Answers to your questions about Apple and security by Spooky23 on Monday February 22, 2016 @01:29PM (#11153065)
So what?

It's pretty trivial to obscure that metadata, and frankly the content of your correspondence is more important than the metadata.

Your mail has fairly robust legal protection, and you can spend more money (i.e. Registered mail) to provide a higher level of tamper evidence and accountability in transit.

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