{"id":185919,"date":"2014-07-15T19:38:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T00:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/07\/15\/un-dirtyword_believable\/"},"modified":"2014-07-15T19:38:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-16T00:38:00","slug":"un-dirtyword_believable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/07\/15\/un-dirtyword_believable\/","title":{"rendered":"Un-Dirtyword_Believable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The German parliamentary committee investigating the NSA may, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2014\/jul\/15\/germany-typewriters-espionage-nsa-spying-surveillance\">may revert to typewriters<\/a>,&#8221; in order to thwart spying from the Americans:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">German politicians are considering a return to using manual typewriters for sensitive documents in the wake of the US surveillance scandal.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">The head of the Bundestag&#8217;s parliamentary inquiry into NSA activity in Germany said in an interview with the Morgenmagazin TV programme that he and his colleagues were seriously thinking of ditching email completely.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Asked &#8220;Are you considering typewriters&#8221; by the interviewer on Monday night, the Christian Democrat politican Patrick Sensburg said: &#8220;As a matter of fact, we have \u2013 and not electronic models either&#8221;. &#8220;Really?&#8221; the surprised interviewer checked. &#8220;Yes, no joke,&#8221; Sensburg responded.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">&#8220;Unlike other inquiry committees, we are investigating an ongoing situation. Intelligence activities are still going on, they are happening,&#8221; said Sensburg.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/VhQgVMD.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"175\" \/>You know, the magic slate works to.<\/p>\n<p>During the cold war, the members of the American embassy assumed that they were bugged, and <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/1987-04-11\/business\/fi-760_1_magic-slate\">they used these 99\u00a2 toys to communicate when they wanted not to be overheard<\/a>.&nbsp; (No, this is not a joke)<\/p>\n<p>We live in profoundly strange times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The German parliamentary committee investigating the NSA may, &#8220;may revert to typewriters,&#8221; in order to thwart spying from the Americans: German politicians are considering a return to using manual typewriters for sensitive documents in the wake of the US surveillance scandal. The head of the Bundestag&#8217;s parliamentary inquiry into NSA activity in Germany said in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1062,984,1009,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-espionage","category-europe","category-government","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185919"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}