• MonkderDritte@feddit.de
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    4 months ago

    Ah no, they can’t give it out because they aren’t able to ensure that there’s no sensible data on it.

    Btw, how about donating them a tape-to-usb converter? Can they refuse it? With some “we can’t ensure integrity and security of the device” mumbo jumbo?

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      4 months ago

      If the information that is the tape cant come to us maybe we can visit the tape and measure it ourselves.

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      4 months ago

      They haven’t forgotten about “The Thing”. Anyone donating hardware might have an ulterior motive for wanting hardware inside an NSA building.

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      4 months ago

      you could donate one and at the same time claim (somewhere really anonymously in the internet) that you want to destroy that tape with that player for protection. They then might actually ‘want’ to investigate

      1. the tape
      2. the player

      (3. possibly also you)

      after doing 1 and 2 they then actually have the technology AND the hardware to play that stupid tape.

      if they do 3. and ask you who you want to protect, you can truthfully say “law fulfillment”

      always think outside the box AND around the corner ;-)

      hope that helps