Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks
Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks
Japan's government has finally eliminated the use of floppy disks in all its systems, two decades since their heyday, reaching a long-awaited milestone in a campaign to modernize the bureaucracy. By the middle of last month, the Digital Agency had scrapped all 1,034 regulations governing their use, ...
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They retired them in 2019.
I can't remember where, but I think I've seen that spun as a security benefit (probably facetiously). Simply because few people can access floppies anymore, especially 5 1/4". And there's probably like 20 people with 8 inch floppy drives.
Edit: oops... There is literally a comment in this thread saying the very same.
Buy a floppy drive off ebay == end up on a watchlist