• lemmyvore@feddit.nl
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    5 months ago

    What would they use Word for? This is about submitting data in their own standard formats in tiny files.

    The real crime is that they’re not switching to online. Using optical discs is going to be even more ridiculous for those tiny files.

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      5 months ago

      Ah that makes more sense, the article didn’t mention what was stored on them unless I missed it

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      5 months ago

      The game is security isn’t it? No online means you must have physical access to some systems

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        5 months ago

        Sure, 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.

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          5 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.

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            5 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.