A leading German politician has suggested that typewriters will be used to write confidential documents, in the wake of the U.S. spying scandal.Patrick Sensburg, head of the German parliamentâs enquiry into NSA activity, said that email may soon become redundant, in an interview with the Morgenmagazin TV show Monday night.
Faced with the incredulity of the interviewer, Sensburg insisted that his announcement wasnât a joke. He added that should German politicians adopt typewriters, theyâll be using manual, not electronic, models.
Sensburg said that ongoing U.S. monitoring of Germany necessitated the change in operation.
So we're driving the Germans to use old-fashioned typewriters and...possibly into the arms of Vladimir Putin: "At the moment, German sympathy for Putin is partly derived from the sense that the United States isn't much better, and that it is prepared to violate international law if it happens to further its political ends," write a trio of reporters in the latest issue of the German magazine Spiegel, on the country's increasingly frayed alliance with the United States.
