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At least these couldnโ€™t be hacked from half a world away!
Mar 8 at 1:02pmWeb
Show threadSimon ZerafaMar 8

@stux

Just insider threats, which to be fair, is also a problem today.

Show threadStuck HereMar 8

@simonzerafa @stux

Remember a time when viruses only came to you via someone's shared diskette? You had to manually tell your anti-virus software to scan the diskette before you ran or downloaded anything...

Man I feel old.

Show threadSimon ZerafaMar 8

@MyWoolyMastadon @stux

Dr Solomons Anti Virus Toolkit ๐Ÿ˜„

Show threadSimon ZerafaMar 8

@MyWoolyMastadon @stux

I still have the reverse engineered ASM source for the Jerusalem virus here somewhere.

Show threadFlipper ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆMar 8
@simonzerafa @MyWoolyMastadon @stux I remember having to go pick up a disk with F-Prot from college IT as I'd not been practicing good computer hygiene. Pre-internet virus. Before the script kiddiez and their Anna Kournikova viruses.
Show threadCjutyMar 8
@simonzerafa @stux my company literaly acknowledged that there might be insider threats 1 month ago 
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Show threadLinux and praxis: part of the resistance ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ โ˜ฎ๏ธMar 8

@Myra @stux

Backing up at the end of every day.

Show threadHugo MillsMar 8
@stux And you never, ever, saw one of those boxes without both keys still in the lock...
Show threadLeelooMar 8
@darkling @stux
Not true. None of mine have the keys in the lock. In fact, I have no idea where the keys are.
Show threadRay McCarthyMar 8
@darkling @stux
Except I took the locks off in case the keys were lost.
No labels and wrong way up. Obviously a badly done advert.
Show threadBoloMKXXVIIIMar 8
@darkling @stux Not true! I had to lock mine up or the disks would get "borrowed" and never return. Try explaining to your boss that your boot diskette disappeared.
Show threadmusing_sys๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆMar 8
@stux Who the hell loaded this thing with the disk sliders up?
Show threadBรฅrd H. (lvl 49 ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ด)Mar 8

@musing_sys @stux

And no labels... Good luck locating the right one!

Show threadะจัƒั€ะพMar 8

@stux bitrot was real though.

Also I remember copying Duke Nukem from my friend. He lived one hour tram ride away and the game took 13 of them. I ended up going twice as the first time a few of floppies failed to read.

Show threadIron BugMar 8
@shuro @stux same thing when I tried to copy SimCity or something like this. sometimes diskettes didn't read. sometimes archives didn't unpack.
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Show thread0xC0DEC0DE07EAMar 8
@stux honestly, converting a cybersecurity problem into a physical security problem is a big win. Itโ€™s less convenient, but thatโ€™s frequently a worthwhile trade.
Show threadWandreCanadaMar 8
@stux The best hacking tools were a good pair of cross trainers
Show threadlucaMar 8
@stux I had many variants over them ๐Ÿ˜€ And that's also for *modern* 3.5" floppies! ๐Ÿ˜…
Show threadEm & future cats ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿˆ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆMar 8
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And if it got buried under a bunch of books and paperwork only the people who new โ€œwhere it *was*โ€ could access it ๐Ÿคฃ
Show threadErwin Ernst eest9 SteinhammerMar 8

@stux Ever since I set in a Talk were people claimed to have hacked a computer with an air gap, because they were able to manipulate a peripheral scanner/printer via fucking lasers, I don't trust anything anymore!

And while I don't find the original talk, I found some papers with (on a conceptional level) similar attacks: https://arxiv.org/html/2409.02292v1

RAMBO: Leaking Secrets from Air-Gap Computers by Spelling Covert Radio Signals from Computer RAM

Show threadFranรงois @JuraMar 8
@stux this box contains no more than 144 Mb of data.You have nowadays thousand of these boxes in a smartphone. Memory was precious at the time and was carefully allocated by the user.
Show threadRickNobodyBeinzMar 8
@stux
I have one of those cases and I never needed to lock it.
I kept all my MIDI disks in there with all the music I was sequencing for a duo I was singing in 1991-1997
We used a Roland SD-35 Sound Canvas MIDI player and put it all through a sound system.
We also used a Digitech IPS-33B Super Harmony Machine to supplement our vocals to get 3 and 4 part harmony.
The case of disks were primarily 720KB. The Roland couldn't read 1.44 MB disks... LOL!
Show threadAwk & shaMar 8
@stux wow, thatโ€™s enough storage to hold the average json response from a modern enterprise web app!
Show threadFritz AdalisMar 8
@stux @catsalad
Shouldn't post your keys on the Internet, now someone can copy them and break in!
Show threadCat ๐Ÿˆ๐Ÿฅ— (D.Burch) โ Mar 8
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Show threadcindyyusaMar 8

@stux

That was such an upgrade from the 80s and 70s.
You can warm your house with social media device from the 70s.

Show threadJhooperMar 8

@stux Fun fact: the term 'hacking' initially referred to the process of hacking at a locked diskette case with a butterknife to get around the lock.

/S

Show threadDuckbilled Plattypus.Mar 8
@stux Ok. I still have that. Saved lots of things I don't remember, and have no devices left to decipher. And no international crime or spy ring could ever be bothered. But, I am pretty sure my late mom's super-delicious ono Hawai'ian beef stew recipe is locked away in one of them. If only I had had her Fax it to me. (Still have an analog Fax at work.)
Show threadRWFMar 8
@stux
OMG hilarious and true! ๐Ÿ˜‚
Show threadNerbMar 8

@stux

A little before your time but these were common on desktop computer cases back in the 1980's.

Show threadAl & Val's Modern HomesteadingMar 8
@stux Had SO MANY of these. And the 5 1/4's too. But you could get a lot more of THOSE in a single tray.
Show threadAngua Mar 8
@stux

Nope but you could bribe someone.
Show threadGilberto FicaraMar 8
@stux am I the only one bothered by the fact that the floppies are upside down?
Show thread๐Ÿ‘ฝ๐Ÿฆ๐Ÿฆ‡๐Ÿ‰๐Ÿ’ปMar 9

@stux I used to get passed those shit locks all the time with just a paperclick.

there was this 1 time with a locker<like image> where I picked the lock and the entire mechanism fell out.

Show threadder.hansMar 12

@stux still have one, can hold a lot of USB sticks

But now I want a floppy-shaped SD card holder, you could get more than a dozen SD cards in each floppy slot

Well, once flash prices drop below new sports car levels ...