How To Protect Your Documents

Kremlin turns back to typewriters to avoid security leaks
By Agence France-Presse

"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."

Sounds like a plan to me!
It seems to me most of us are going to an awful lot of expense and trouble investing in malware and virus software protection for our computers. What the Kremlin's doing might not be a bad idea for we individuals either, considering the NSA's habit of snooping. Especially given the ever growing trend towards processing and saving documents to 'the cloud'.

Maybe Russia's on to something here
Currently we spend millions of dollars employing thousands of IT experts in a futile effort to harden this nation's classified documents. Considering all Snowden only had to do was push a button enabling him to download the documents he hooked to a couple of thumb drives. Surely it would have been nearly physically impossible for him to rifle through countless file cabinets. Then he would have had to either photo each of the files or sneak each one of them out the back door.

Sometimes we over think things when the simple solution to a problem is the best solution. Surely a couple of thousand typewriters and a pile of file cabinets have got to be a hellva lot cheaper then mega servers. Both require a controlled environment, so the buildings are already in place. Both employ thousands of workers to maintain. The big difference is, file clerks get paid less then 1/5th of what a IT expert does.

Yeah I got to hand it to Russia on this one

Sometimes the old fashion way is the best way

Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages
The Guardian (U.K.)

"Microsoft has collaborated closely with US intelligence services to allow users' communications to be intercepted, including helping the National Security Agency to circumvent the company's own encryption, according to top-secret documents obtained by the Guardian."SURPRISED?