Comment on Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks
lemmyvore@feddit.nl 2 months agoSure, but forcing an entire country to go through physical handling of each and every request is crazy. I really don’t understand how they managed for so long.
RippleEffect@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Do we know what the scale was? I would assume it’s only for the systems that are required to be air gapped.
lemmyvore@feddit.nl 2 months ago
No, unfortunately. 🙂 They’re not talking about secure paths inside the office, they’re taking about having all their processes using the floppy disks. They have a common format which is proprietary and can only be made with a proprietary PC program and can only be submitted on floppy disks.