Why Russia Threw Out Its Computers — and Bought Typewriters

In 2013, after one of the biggest intelligence leaks in history, a branch of the Russian government quietly bought typewriters. Because a typewriter cannot be hacked. This is the story of the machine everyone declared dead — the Soviet bug hidden inside American embassy typewriters, the battered $50 Olivetti that sold for a quarter of a million dollars, and Dave, one of the last repairmen alive who can make a 100-year-old Underwood type a perfect page again. The typewriter refused to go extinct. So did he. #Typewriter #Underwood #ColdWar #RepairCulture #Typewriters