Makes me wonder how old the citizens are on the floppy disk ?:-)
Tokyo police lose 2 floppy disks containing info on public housing applicants
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#12Wouldn't it be interesting if the floppy disks lost were 2.88MB and also only commonly readable in japan, where that rare format of drive was very slightly more popular in the mid 1990s.
I know it's security by obscurity, but this would secure the data a very decent amount lol
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#13more questions than answers, I love how the article provides no information on why floppy disks were being used as if it occurred in 1995.
The typical reasons costs a lot to upgrade tech for large organizations, existing supply lines to get the equipment, the pro/cons being well understood at this point, etc.
Oh, and of course our good old friend "well we've always done it this way!"
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#14Oh Japan, never change.
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#15Criminals recover the disks but then are foiled in their dastardly endeavors because they can’t find a disk drive to load the floppies.
Re: Tokyo police lose 2 floppy disks containing info on public housing applicants
#16Wouldn't it be interesting if the floppy disks lost were 2.88MB and also only commonly readable in japan, where that rare format of drive was very slightly more popular in the mid 1990s.
Don't worry they were Bernoulli disks
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#17This makes me wonder what the top posts on HN would have looked like if it existed in 1995
Re: Tokyo police lose 2 floppy disks containing info on public housing applicants
#18more questions than answers, I love how the article provides no information on why floppy disks were being used as if it occurred in 1995.
The typical reasons costs a lot to upgrade tech for large organizations, existing supply lines to get the equipment, the pro/cons being well understood at this point, etc. Oh, and of course our good old friend "well we've always done it this way!"
True, but on the other hand neither CDs, DVDs nor Blurays are bleeding edge tech these days :-))
I also imagine that we've made at least 10x as many DVDs by now, than all the floppies that were ever made, regardless of the floppy disk size.
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#19Makes me wonder how old the citizens are on the floppy disk ?:-)
From the 4th paragraph of the article
> 38 men in their 20s to 80s
Re: Tokyo police lose 2 floppy disks containing info on public housing applicants
#20BusinessInsider, October 2021, "The Japanese government is still trying to phase out floppy disks a decade after Sony stopped making them"
https://www.businessinsider.com/japan-government-tokyo-flopp...