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Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks (japantoday.com)

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Security through obscurity would be having a system connected to a network, but relying on a secret / unknown protocol to secure it.

Air-gapping a system is a real and very useful security method. That being said, it's not enough by itself.

If you're interested, have a look at past examples, like the recent work on breaking Tetra communication standard and Stuxnet.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

As another guy joked it's really is genuinely more accurate to call floppy discs security by obsolescence because everyone doesn't have the stuff required to manipulate/read floppy discs and there are even people who don't even know what a floppy disk is and just think it's a physical save button