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Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks
(www.reuters.com)
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this post was submitted on 03 Jul 2024
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Do we know what the scale was? I would assume it's only for the systems that are required to be air gapped.
No, unfortunately. ๐ 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.