“That is true. But there is nothing that makes an 8” floppy inherently more hack-resistant than a USB thumb drive. Neither of these is stored in a machine.”
Except that even if you got hold of a 8 inch floppy you have a really hard time reading it. The drives haven’t been made 35 years
There are people who can make a custom drive to read it if necessary. That’s how they do a lot of disk recovery for badly damaged drives. Gooberments would have access to them.