Description: "Joshua D. Copeland", "Information Technologist", IT, security, "Joshua Copeland", "Josh Copeland", jdcopeland, "tech blog", "IT blog", "Computer Security" "IT Professional"
I recently read an article in Defense Systems Magazine that toyed with the idea of using what most would consider obsolete technology as a “security” measure. In this case they were specifically talking about the use of 8-inch (yes, you read that right) floppy disks that hold about 1 to 1.2 megabytes of data.
8 Inch Floppy disk and drive
They make a convincing case for it as well. How many hackers not only can write a malicious program à la Stuxnet with such a limited amount of storage let alone even have equipment to write it to a disk?