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Aside from that, the upgrades to this critical infrastructure should be resistant to hacking and other vulnerabilities They should realise that, unlike e.g. US
by userbinator 1y ago
Aside from that, the upgrades to this critical infrastructure should be resistant to hacking and other vulnerabilities
They should realise that, unlike e.g. USB drives or SSDs or even HDDs[1], floppy disks are dumb raw media and cannot contain any "hidden" behaviour, and the failure modes are well-known.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23735424 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23735424
- XorNot 1y agoCD and DVD can fill this role though. It's a damn shame optical media progress cranked down like it did.
- trinix912 1y agoWouldn't it be quite wasteful to constantly have to burn CDs for that?
- trollbridge 1y agoRewriteable or write once optical media has a rather poor service life… worse than high quality floppies.
- os2warpman 1y ago>floppy disks are dumb raw media and cannot contain any "hidden" behavior Look up floppy boot sector viruses.
- userbinator 1y agoThat's not "hidden".
- userbinator 1y agoIt's right in the first sector, plainly readable.