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NSA Claims It Can’t Watch a Tape It Recorded in the 1980s (gizmodo.com)
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[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 10 points 4 months ago

The zero-effort method of pointing a camera and mic at the screen as it's being played back should be sufficient if they can't do it another way. Given the tape's age, the resolution is unlikely to be high enough to lose significant details that way.