Mx Amber Alex (she/it) 😷 on Nostr: and let's add: don't use a typewriter (and if you do anything manually by hand, think ...

and let's add: don't use a typewriter (and if you do anything manually by hand, think of fingerprints, DNA evidence, etc.)

The Stasi, East Germany's secret police, used to specialise in tracking the little oddities each typewriter had – spacing slightly off, chipped corners in letters, etc. – and trace them back to individual activists. All it would take for a modern oppressive regime to trace a certain poster back to you is to suspect you and compare the poster or zine with your typewriter.