Update Complete: U.S. Nuclear Weapons No Longer Need Floppy Disks (2019)
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#2Well there goes the most solid security measure to ever exist.
No one's gonna hack floppy disks.
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#3Article from 2019.
https://archive.li/2022.03.08-114925/https://www.nytimes.com...
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#4“The Air Force completed a replacement of the aging SACCS floppy drives with a highly secure solid-state digital storage solution in June,”
Sounds like flash drives. Perhaps even USB.
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#6Can we buy decommissioned nuclear floppy discs? I'd like a framed one on my wall.
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#7Can we buy decommissioned nuclear floppy discs? I'd like a framed one on my wall.
As cool as it would be, those discs were probably pulverized into atomic dust just in case they had any recoverable secrets on them.
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#8“The Air Force completed a replacement of the aging SACCS floppy drives with a highly secure solid-state digital storage solution in June,” Sounds like flash drives. Perhaps even USB.
Pretty sure they went with the higher capacity Iomega Zip Drives.
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#9“The Air Force completed a replacement of the aging SACCS floppy drives with a highly secure solid-state digital storage solution in June,” Sounds like flash drives. Perhaps even USB.
> secure solid-state
Or a CD
Re: Update Complete: U.S. Nuclear Weapons No Longer Need Floppy Disks (2019)
#10Can we buy decommissioned nuclear floppy discs? I'd like a framed one on my wall.
As cool as it would be, those discs were probably pulverized into atomic dust just in case they had any recoverable secrets on them.
Is it safe to breathe that dust? I'd like the smell of nuclear floppy in the morning.