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Re:Tokyo police lose 2 floppy disks containing info on publi... by sonicggg on Thursday December 30, 2021 @01:01PM (#29739253)
Instead of encrypting the data, maybe they are relying on the fact that nobody else today has a reader for floppy disks, so the data is safe.
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Re:Tokyo police lose 2 floppy disks containing info on publi... by madiator on Thursday December 30, 2021 @01:07PM (#29739341)
Shhh, you are giving ideas to the crypto banks.
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Re:Tokyo police lose 2 floppy disks containing info on publi... by iszomer on Thursday December 30, 2021 @01:15PM (#29739473)
I wouldn't surprise me if they did: cold storage on obscure storage formats.
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