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Floppy disks were high-tech weapons once (files.mastodon.social)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Who said they still cant?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)

They can, actually... Many nuclear bases in the US use floppy disks for code to reduce the risk of a cyberattack and because upgrading that intricate of a system is prohibitively expensive for how little good it would do.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Who would win? Thirty years of US security and tech, or one magnet boi?

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