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US military no longer using floppy disks to control nuke launches
short by Kanishka Pandey / on Saturday, 19 October, 2019
The US military is no longer using floppy disks to receive nuclear launch orders from the President. The US Strategic Command has announced that it has replaced the drives with a "highly-secure solid-state digital storage solution," as per a US military officer. Floppy disks were being used as they lack IP address and can't be hacked, the official added.
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