Every typewriter has a built in keylogger; they call them "ribbons".
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This is obvious in hindsight, but I’d never thought of it before
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that's why i have these guys as my soundtrack whenever i'm typing something sensitive.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB4zVJq6g0Y …
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now I wonder how many ways there are to pwn a pencil
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in principle it really ought to be possible to use the same trick for them
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Makes me think of one of my favorite cold war spy-craft stories.https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/10/how-soviets-used-ibm-selectric-keyloggers-to-spy-on-us-diplomats/ …
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they can't keylog my ransom letter style of normal letters
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Yah. Securing old typewriters means nulling sound at some boundary. Every person who has ever worked in a SCIF knows this... or should. There is also the old typewriter ribbon. Built in keylogger.
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When the KGB "arrested" Vasily Grossman's novel "Life & Fate," they took the typescript & the carbon copy & the carbon paper AND the typewriter ribbon, just to be sure. Fortunately, they didn't ask him if he had given any copies to friends, which is how Sakharov got it published
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70s era soviet tech did it clandestinely. took x-raying to detect. modern tech can track typing through sound alone, of course.https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/10/how-soviets-used-ibm-selectric-keyloggers-to-spy-on-us-diplomats/ …
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