tao Posted June 21, 2017 Share Posted June 21, 2017 Excerpts: "[T]he U.S. Department of Defense still uses 8-inch floppy disks, a stored media technology retired by most businesses back in the early 1980s. At my first job at a tiny weekly newspaper in 1986, we used 8-inch floppies and a Digital Equipment Corp. system to back up the paper’s terminal-based production system. Even then, it was considered comically out of date and was rapidly supplanted by desktop computers and the smaller 5.25-inch floppy. By the mid 1990’s we were all using 3.5-inch media, and then CD-ROMs. Today, we store in the cloud."... Please, if interested, read < here > Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ha91 Posted June 23, 2017 Share Posted June 23, 2017 I think it's a great idea, but definitely not practical. It's clever because to use a technology so obselete that no potential attacker would think about using it and hence, the vulnerability would be set aside. It's stupid because the file sizes these days make for this hypotehsis to become null and void due to the lack of practicality. Other than that, the systems in use, that are often required today, can't possibly support floppy drives and so is the support for the hardware. In addition, the chances of data corruption and hardware and software issues are magnanimous and all point that the theory is just a conspiracy theory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimmySvert Posted June 24, 2017 Share Posted June 24, 2017 9 hours ago, Ha91 said: I think it's a great idea, but definitely not practical. It's clever because to use a technology so obselete that no potential attacker would think about using it and hence, the vulnerability would be set aside. It's stupid because the file sizes these days make for this hypotehsis to become null and void due to the lack of practicality. Other than that, the systems in use, that are often required today, can't possibly support floppy drives and so is the support for the hardware. In addition, the chances of data corruption and hardware and software issues are magnanimous and all point that the theory is just a conspiracy theory. Totally agree with you!!! But I think it would make more sense if they used Tape Drives (a technology that is thoroughly tested and improved, since 1951 & offers more capacity) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tape_drive & Lifespan of floppy disks may vary, but still longer than tapes (if they are quality builds) https://www.storagecraft.com/blog/data-storage-lifespan/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vitorio Posted June 24, 2017 Share Posted June 24, 2017 There is a saying: If it is not broken why fix it. If it worked for them why changed it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jogs Posted June 24, 2017 Share Posted June 24, 2017 The apparently believe 'Old is Gold'. But just keeping a mobile phone on a disk can corrupt the files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pc71520 Posted June 24, 2017 Share Posted June 24, 2017 On 21/6/2017 at 6:46 PM, adi said: The U.S. Department of Defense still uses 8-inch floppy disks... They will invent 3.5-inch media and CD-ROMs at some time... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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