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Re:Tokyo police lose 2 floppy disks containing info on publi... by np_tedious on Thursday December 30, 2021 @01:17PM (#29739498)
So 3MB of personal information? That's well under 1 byte per citizen how bad can it be?

/s

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Re:Tokyo police lose 2 floppy disks containing info on publi... by kahrl on Thursday December 30, 2021 @02:17PM (#29740268)
If they are 5.25" 1.2MB high density floppies, that's a max of 64k per person. What the what?
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Re:Tokyo police lose 2 floppy disks containing info on publi... by np_tedious on Thursday December 30, 2021 @03:24PM (#29741015)
I had used total city population as denominator. Oops
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