Re:Kremlin turns back to typewriters to avoid security leaks
by ams6110 on Sunday July 14, 2013 @03:03PM
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Typewriters are trivial to fingerprint. All of them have slight imperfections in characters, spacing, alignment.
A cloth ribbon would be hard to extract anything from, I'd think, maybe you could with a brand new one. Carbon film ribbons as used in the Selectric yes, you can easily read them but they can be shredded or burned to dispose of them securely.
A cloth ribbon would be hard to extract anything from, I'd think, maybe you could with a brand new one. Carbon film ribbons as used in the Selectric yes, you can easily read them but they can be shredded or burned to dispose of them securely.