If you need something typed, but don't want it to be easily stolen, typewriters would be a good option. However, if the goal is to prevent leaking, then that's not really going to work. It's not difficult to xerox something or take a photo and then leak *that*. Cameras can be very tiny, and portable scanners can be hidden in a jacket pocket or under a pant leg.
Security hasn't disappeared just because we default to using technology. The Kremlin's a big place though. Ordering just four typewriters doesn't necessarily mean that they've changed security or tactics. I do have to wonder if they're just replacing other typewriters... or maybe the recent leakstravaganza has made them reconsider their own policies :D ~Griffin -- Sent from a tracking device. Please excuse typocetera.
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