I still have a couple old manuals and seek out IBM Selectrics whenever I can find good ones at a decent price. From Germany's English Language News source - The Local:
Typewriter manufacturers see boom in sales
German typewriter manufacturers are enjoying a boom in sales following the NSA spying scandal. A German defence manufacturer switched to typewriters last year, while last week a leading politician called for the government to use the old technology.
The head of the parliamentary inquiry into spying by the US National Security Service in Germany made headlines last week when he said his committee was considering using typewriters. But he is not alone.
With a turnover of €5 million, the German typewriter market is growing.
Manufactures Olympia and Bandermann are seeing a revival in what was until recently a dying technology.
"We sell about 10,000 (typewriters) every year," Bandermann manager Rolf Bonnen told The Local. Sales grew around a third last year on 2012.
Some more:
Last year Triumph Adler, which is part of Bandermann, made a YouTube video to promote its product as "Bug proof. NSA proof," after the Russians' interest was first reported by German media.
And an Olympia spokesman told Wirtschaftswoche magazine that the company expects to sell more typewriters this year than at any time in the last 20 years, with sales set to double in 2014.
Even if you are on a totally isolated system, people can still decypher what your system is doing. Tempest has been a mature technology since the mid 1980's.
There is going to be a big market for "secure" systems. Data obfuscation and signal jamming will yield good-enough security. Take a nice $1,200 laptop, move the guts into an $800 titanium chassis, tart it up with $500 worth of bells and whistles and sell it for $7,500 as a Data Secure System. Talk about taking candy from a baby...
Also, A.F.D.B.'s would be a great market to get into as well.
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