I get it. Just concerned that we may get hit before we have time to send the retaliation because of latency. The last thing we can be proud of as a nation is being last because of floppy disks. Some of us might live to be embarrassed by this fact from now on.
“China pushed the button with a 64 gig thumbdrive, and the US had stuck floppy disks so they are done”.
Since we are in an “arms race” this would be nothing to be proud of at all. May as well stop this insanity if we are that far behind. I know we are not, but the perception is still there with this.
Well, considering the topic of the article is that we’re finally ditching floppies for modern storage devices, I’d say your concern is moot.
I’m generally more concerned about some of the networking aspects. Anyone, any nation, with IP-based anything is vulnerable—even with air-gapped systems. Stringent security configurations and trained, disciplined users (a limited number of them) are about the only counters to this growing problem.