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[ale] Fwd: [mil-oss] US military uses 8-inch floppy disks to coordinate nuclear force operations
- Subject: [ale] Fwd: [mil-oss] US military uses 8-inch floppy disks to coordinate nuclear force operations
- From: slitt at troubleshooters.com (Steve Litt)
- Date: Thu, 26 May 2016 21:25:29 -0400
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On Fri, 27 May 2016 07:38:05 +0900
Sam Rakowski <devnull at iamdevnull.info> wrote:
> > better than thumb drives :
> > http://www.cnbc.com/2016/05/25/us-military-uses-8-inch-floppy-disks-to-coordinate-nuclear-force-operations.html
> > US military uses 8-inch floppy disks to coordinate nuclear force
> > operations
>
> Agreed. It's 2016. They need to move to the cloud already.
I really hope you're kidding. Some things don't belong on the Internet,
and access to nuclear weapon launch is one of them.
Surely there must be a happy medium between 8 inch floppy and NWAS
(Nuclear War As A Service).
SteveT
Steve Litt
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