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Pen and paper in a good old fashioned steel cabinet (you can get those with some nice solid wood enclosing as well) require actual physical access to read. How
by blattimwind 9y ago
Pen and paper in a good old fashioned steel cabinet (you can get those with some nice solid wood enclosing as well) require actual physical access to read.
However, side channels exist. If you write classified information on a correspondence pad, then the pad itself becomes a classified item, too. Obviously.
- mulmen 9y agoWho gets keys to the cabinet? How do you know they haven't been duplicated? What if there is a fire? Do you keep a copy of the files somewhere? How do you control access to those?
- blattimwind 9y agoYou get literally the exact same set of problems with computers, plus all problems computers bring to the table for free.
- mulmen 9y agoYou're pretending pen and paper doesn't bring another set of problems of its own.
- blattimwind 9y agoNo, I'm just not exhaustively listing the advantages of computers, because (i) not what this thread is about (ii) by and large we're aware of them.
- hinkley 9y agoDid you let Richard Feynman into the building...
- viraptor 9y ago> Pen and paper in a good old fashioned steel cabinet (you can get those with some nice solid wood enclosing as well) require actual physical access to read. On the other hand, also the bad part is that pen and paper require actual physical access to read ;)