Floppies & Nukes...
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Quote:For more than a half-century, the Air Force command in charge of the US's nuclear arsenal has been using floppy disks to control its system.
The antiquated system has long done its job well and securely, but the Air Force has replaced it with a new "highly secure" digital storage system.
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Despite the looming problems facing the old floppy-based SACCS, 595th SCS commander Rossi told C4ISRNet that the legacy system offered an advantage that will never be obsolete: security
"I joke with people and say it's the Air Force's oldest IT system. But it's the age that provides that security," Rossi told C4ISRNet of the SACCS in an October interview. "You can't hack something that doesn't have an IP address. It's a very unique system — it is old and it is very good."
The military has gotten rid of the floppy disks used to control US nuclear weapons for more than 50 years
"It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong." – Thomas Sowell