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US will no longer use floppy disks to coordinate nuke launches...um, what? -- (link)

Posted by kilboooooo (aka kkuphal) Oct 18 '19, 08:21

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https://www.engadget.com/2019/10/18/us-military-nuclear-missiles-floppy-disks/ (www.engadget.com)

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"It now has a highly-secure solid state digital storage solution." *gets hacked* -- nm - Mop Oct 18, 09:07
Well, that's good. -- nm - Mop Oct 18, 09:06
"and is unhackable precisely because it was created long before the internet existed" That's not how these things work. -- nm - ty97 Oct 18, 08:47 1
- Umm...it kind of does in this case? At least by all most common modern attack vectors - JD Oct 18, 09:35
Hah! Got an AOL error message -- (link) - Amoxy Oct 18, 08:41
"Hello, Dell? We'd like to order 100 laptops with those fancy new optical drives. .... what?" -- nm - DOD doh Oct 18, 08:34

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