US military uses 8-inch floppy disks to coordinate nuclear force operations

Sad huh.

My dear lord I have only 2 words.

Bull Shit.

It's legit.

There entire nuke operation command is run on a 1/4 of a megabyte disk.

I hope that is not true.

Are those things even made any more?

Unhackable, untraceable, simple?

And this is a bad thing?

Exactly. Lets upgrade to Chinese made electronic devices that have built in backdoors. That should make it safe and secure...

Someone is gonna get a very lucrative defense contract.

What's wrong with an 8 inch floppy???

Here's the report:
[link to www.gao.gov]

Saccs is part of a redundant system for siop force control. That 8.9 mhz is also part of the system

i'd rather them use that than thumb drives

jus saying

I guess if we actually make any of that here they could do that.

That's why I love Michelle

I wonder if they play Oregon Trail during lunch break

+1 Lol.

You have died of dysentery.

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... don't know why it's coming out now ...
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... the feds have been running on this OLD TECHNOLOGY! ...
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... they have NOT UPDATED! ...
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... maybe because the old workers wouldn't know how to use the new technology? ...
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lol

the tech needs to work not be newest

believe me u dont want auto update on this

it has to go thru the most rigorous verification if you change anything most of that verification has to be redone

you think they can just pop a macbook in?

at some point it will be upgraded r ut abd will use new tech but that tech will again stck for 30 years until its worth it to fully rebuild

Global intelligence agencies still use typewriters to write sensitive messages. Sometimes high tech is less secure than old school

Optical or magnetic?

smart move , can't be hacked

Think that's bad, remember they entrust the Red Button to Obama.

you really think electronics controls the nuclear program?

hahaha

:gianttomcruiseface:

:trumpfag:

Come on now.

Like a fax?? lol, it is the ones selling faxes that promote that, everybody else has moved onto watermarks and digital time-stamps to prove which document is the original. Mind you a dot matrix will do triplicates bur then you need carbon paper and that is 'messy'. The legal profession won't change as that is how the get the stuff to sue people over or whatever it is. As crooked as they are it probably helps them hide things.

Why would any of you think how we coordinate our nuclear strikes would be on cnbc?

My 8 inch is mostly floppy
Sometimes, it is a real hard drive !