Germany May Use Old Fashioned Typewriters to avoid NSA

Germany is considering using manual typewriters to draft sensitive documents in order to combat NSA and other U.S. security agencies from spying. Patrick Sensburg, the head of German parliament’s inquiry into NSA alleged spying on country’s official said, he and others in his team are considering using old typewriters for…

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Windows 8 vulnerable to hacking: Germany

FRANKFURT: A German government technology agency has warned that new security technology in computers running Microsoft’sWindows 8 operating system may actually make PCs more vulnerable to cyberthreats, including sabotage. Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security, or BSI, said in a statement posted on its website on Wednesday that federal government agencies and critical infrastructure operatorsshould…

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