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Russia remains a black spot, due to the language/kyrilic alphabet? And they do most secret stuff with typewriters and photocopies these days, so i've heard. Sno
by quakeguy 10y ago
Russia remains a black spot, due to the language/kyrilic alphabet? And they do most secret stuff with typewriters and photocopies these days, so i've heard. Snowdens revelations had a big impact there.
- Chaebixi 10y ago> And they do most secret stuff with typewriters and photocopies these days, so i've heard. Snowdens revelations had a big impact there. I think I heard the first heard the "Russia switches back to typewriters" story pre-Snowden. Electronic typewriter bugs are also not unheard of: http://www.cryptomuseum.com/covert/bugs/selectric/ http://www.cryptomuseum.com/covert/bugs/selectric/.
- __jal 10y ago1) I kinda doubt Russian hackers code on typewriters. 2) Cyrillic is an alphabet, not magic incomprehensibility dust. There are plenty of Russian speakers who are not beholden to their spooks. 3) Assange has an agenda in addition and orthogonal to fighting secrecy. I'm not saying he's insincere; I'm saying that some leaks are clearly more equal than others. It would not surprise me in the least if he were to sit on some leaks in order to not piss off a source providing others, especially around hard deadlines.
- quakeguy 10y agoThis comment has some more info: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14007213 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14007213