On: US Nuclear Missile Silos Still Use Floppy Disks

[_3u10]

And contrary to the opinions of the General are probably massively insecure because they were invented in a time before aleph one's famous paper even came out.

Imagine a system so insecure that it will execute whatever the operator has on a floppy disk with full root permissions.

[smacktoward → _3u10]

> Imagine a system so insecure that it will execute whatever the operator has on a floppy disk with full root permissions.

Congratulations, you just invented MS-DOS!

[noir_lord → _3u10]

> Imagine a system so insecure that it will execute whatever the operator has on a floppy disk with full root permissions.

Indeed but that system is air-gapped at the bottom of a missile silo surrounded by trained people with shoot to kill orders.