Shades of "Independence Day"

Germany's parliamentary committee investigating the National Security Agency is mulling using manual typewriters to make sure American agents don’t snoop on its work.  

Patrick Sensburg, a member of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union party who is leading the panel, told a German broadcaster on Monday that the committee needed to do all it can to secure its work from spies’ prying eyes. 

"In fact, we already have [a typewriter], and it’s even a non-electronic typewriter," he said, according to a translation from Ars Technica.