Tokyo police lose 2 floppy disks containing info on public housing applicants

Re:Tokyo police lose 2 floppy disks containing info on publi... by WalterBright on Thursday December 30, 2021 @01:23PM (#29739593)

USB sticks are better in every respect.

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Re:Tokyo police lose 2 floppy disks containing info on publi... by serf on Thursday December 30, 2021 @01:41PM (#29739797)

I never had a floppy fake an HID.

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Re:Tokyo police lose 2 floppy disks containing info on publi... by DocTomoe on Thursday December 30, 2021 @01:36PM (#29739740)

USB sticks also require an open USB port which can be used for all kinds of attack vectors that you just don't have to remember hardening against with a floppy.

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Re:Tokyo police lose 2 floppy disks containing info on publi... by tadfisher on Thursday December 30, 2021 @01:39PM (#29739780)

Except security. Floppies can't do anything other than storage, but USB devices can be just about anything.

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Re:Tokyo police lose 2 floppy disks containing info on publi... by glandium on Thursday December 30, 2021 @03:33PM (#29741111)

The story doesn't say much about what kind of computers are used, but the floppy drives could just as well be USB ones...

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