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its interesting to note that floppy disks are still more secure than anything usb. what can you move on to that is both secure and cheap?
by nmz 4y ago
its interesting to note that floppy disks are still more secure than anything usb. what can you move on to that is both secure and cheap?
- samatman 4y agoSince it's Japan we're talking about, they could revive the MiniDisc. I've always had a soft spot for that medium.
- ekianjo 4y agoThe MiniDisc was horrible because everything around it was proprietary. No thanks.
- samatman 4y agoSure, that's why it failed, but it's bizarre to me to focus on something metaphysical like that. If something can go from horrible to something else without changing a single atom, just Sony publishing some things under a license? What was actually horrible about it at that point, how did you let the circumstances overshadow the object? That tells me something about you, but nothing about MiniDisk. Which was a cool little futuristic cartridge thingy.
- bobsmooth 4y agoHow so? Storage is storage isn't it? Floppy disks can have autoexecs on them.
- klodolph 4y agoUSB isn’t just storage, it’s way more than that. If you plug a USB stick into your computer you have no way of knowing beforehand what the device actually is or what it does. Is the device a normal USB flash drive? Or is it actually something far more malicious? There are USB sticks, in the wild, which impersonate a keyboard. When connected to a computer, at some point, they will send keyboard commands to the computer in an attempt to fire up PowerShell and run commands that install malware. In general, you should not use a USB stick unless you know its provenance. Consider them highly dangerous. Be especially suspicious of USB sticks that you find “lost” near your business, since somebody may be targeting your business—this is a common technique both for pentesters and for actual criminals.
- bobsmooth 4y agoI figured that was the answer but I liked reading your explanation anyway :)
- bombcar 4y agoUSB is way more than storage. No floppy disk keyboards exist.
- ArrayBoundCheck 4y agoUSBs usually have a CPU inside that sits between the storage and PC. This way the PC doesn't need to know a thing about the storage and the CPU can do whatever it needs to implement the USB protocol. However the CPU can be malicious and modify files
- hjkohfg 4y agoCreate a USB adapter which only allows mass storage USB profile forwarding? You plug it in between the computer and the USB stick. Alternatively the OS should allow setting some USB ports to be set to recognize just storage profiles.
- nmz 4y agoCan you actually tell the OS something like that?
- wmf 4y agoCD-RW?
- nmz 4y agoI guess this is the answer... but honestly would hate having something that barely fits in my pocket around... I suppose sdcards are the new floppys but they are much too small, not to mention that they could stop being writable at any moment, but I guess its better than both...
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