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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

The game is security isn't it? No online means you must have physical access to some systems

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Sure, but forcing an entire country to go through physical handling of each and every request is crazy. I really don't understand how they managed for so long.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Do we know what the scale was? I would assume it's only for the systems that are required to be air gapped.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

No, unfortunately. 🙂 They're not talking about secure paths inside the office, they're taking about having all their processes using the floppy disks. They have a common format which is proprietary and can only be made with a proprietary PC program and can only be submitted on floppy disks.