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Aside from that, the upgrades to this critical infrastructure should be resistant to hacking and other vulnerabilities

They should realise that, unlike e.g. USB drives or SSDs or even HDDs[1], floppy disks are dumb raw media and cannot contain any "hidden" behaviour, and the failure modes are well-known.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23735424



CD and DVD can fill this role though. It's a damn shame optical media progress cranked down like it did.


Rewriteable or write once optical media has a rather poor service life… worse than high quality floppies.


Wouldn't it be quite wasteful to constantly have to burn CDs for that?


>floppy disks are dumb raw media and cannot contain any "hidden" behavior

Look up floppy boot sector viruses.


That's not "hidden".


It's right in the first sector, plainly readable.




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