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

submitted 4 months ago by neme@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] RippleEffect@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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 1 points 4 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.