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Tokyo police lose 2 floppy disks containing personal info on 38 public housing applicants


Tech | 203435 hits | Dec 30 6:46 am | Posted by: DrCaleb
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TOKYO -- The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) has lost two floppy disks containing personal information on 38 people, the department announced on on Dec. 27 (2021)

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  1. by avatar DrCaleb
    Thu Dec 30, 2021 5:37 pm
    1991 called . . .

  2. by avatar CDN_PATRIOT
    Thu Dec 30, 2021 6:58 pm
    Floppy disks?!?!

    That's hillarious! Never thought I'd see a headline like this in modern times!

    ROTFL

    -J.

  3. by avatar DrCaleb
    Thu Dec 30, 2021 6:59 pm
    They are making a comeback. They are warmer and fuller than USB drives.

  4. by avatar CDN_PATRIOT
    Thu Dec 30, 2021 7:02 pm
    "DrCaleb" said
    They are making a comeback.


    Seriously?

    I haven't bothered with floppy disks (3.5in) and/or Zip disks since the early 2000's. I have three USB sticks next to my laptop, and one in my car full of music.

    -J.

  5. by avatar DrCaleb
    Thu Dec 30, 2021 7:10 pm
    No, I am making a Vinyl record joke. That you obviously didn't get. :(

  6. by avatar CDN_PATRIOT
    Thu Dec 30, 2021 7:12 pm
    "DrCaleb" said
    No, I am making a Vinyl record joke. That you obviously didn't get. :(


    disco.png

    -J.

  7. by JaredMilne
    Thu Dec 30, 2021 8:44 pm
    Okay, I get the U.S. Defence Department using really old, antiquated computer systems for its nuclear launch system since they're almost impossible to hack with modern technology. I could also understand a Second or Third World country using floppy disks because of their limited resources. No shame in any of that.

    But this is friggin' Tokyo, the capital of one of the richest countries on Earth. And these people are still using floppy disks for keeping track of citizens' information?

  8. by Thanos
    Fri Dec 31, 2021 1:35 am
    The Japanese have a dedication towards hard copies of anything in a way that doesn't exist elsewhere in the developed world. There are still tons of record stores, for example, in Japan and those have gone entirely extinct pretty much everywhere else except for the occasional small used-LP stores that can still be found here and there.

  9. by avatar Scape
    Fri Dec 31, 2021 2:11 am
    "JaredMilne" said
    Okay, I get the U.S. Defence Department using really old, antiquated computer systems for its nuclear launch system since they're almost impossible to hack with modern technology. I could also understand a Second or Third World country using floppy disks because of their limited resources. No shame in any of that.

    But this is friggin' Tokyo, the capital of one of the richest countries on Earth. And these people are still using floppy disks for keeping track of citizens' information?



    Don't laugh, we still use microfiche.

  10. by Thanos
    Fri Dec 31, 2021 2:30 am
    And our governments force us to use faxes because they refuse to accept any signed & scanned documents sent through e-mail. Unbelievable. Sounds like the goddamn Spanish Inquisition. The doctor gave me a pill and I grew a new kidney! 8)

  11. by avatar Scape
    Fri Dec 31, 2021 3:15 am
    I don't think we will ever get rid of faxes. There is no convention that can get around the sacrosanctity of a signature. They looked at a ton of different options but no one will agree upon the same format. If the feds adopted a standard I am sure the provinces would follow suit but that would require leadership.

  12. by JaredMilne
    Fri Dec 31, 2021 4:03 am
    "Thanos" said
    The Japanese have a dedication towards hard copies of anything in a way that doesn't exist elsewhere in the developed world. There are still tons of record stores, for example, in Japan and those have gone entirely extinct pretty much everywhere else except for the occasional small used-LP stores that can still be found here and there.


    Actually, that's something I really admire. I still have all my old class notes, essays, handouts and readings from university, as well as the research work I did for the local museum after I graduated. They've come in handy more than once.

  13. by JaredMilne
    Fri Dec 31, 2021 4:10 am
    "Scape" said
    I don't think we will ever get rid of faxes. There is no convention that can get around the sacrosanctity of a signature. They looked at a ton of different options but no one will agree upon the same format. If the feds adopted a standard I am sure the provinces would follow suit but that would require leadership.


    The thing about old technology like faxes and paper money is that sometimes it's all that's available. When I worked for the province's child support program as a policy guy, we'd have situations like a payor needing his pastor to fax us some paperwork from the church because he couldn't afford full time Internet access. Some of our clients were barely making ends meet, so we had to accommodate a lot of different situations.

    Hell, I still prefer paper books to electronic ones.

  14. by avatar herbie
    Fri Dec 31, 2021 7:25 pm
    Nuclear launch codes stored on punch cards so they could never get hacked.
    Every morning during the Trump administration Pvt. Mellon's job was to shuffle them.



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