[ale] Fwd: [mil-oss] US military uses 8-inch floppy disks to coordinate nuclear force operations

[Dustin Strickland]

> 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.

Looks like we have here a developer and a sysadmin.

On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 9:25 PM, Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com>
wrote:

> 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
>
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