Japan Digital Minister declares a war on floppy discs

https://twitter.com/konotaromp/status/1564767072554745856

by frxx • 4 years ago

7 7 4 years ago

There are about 1900 government procedures that requires business community to use discs, i. e. floppy disc, CD, MD, etc

Discs in general makes more sense - I think I last used a floppy disc in 2003, though I've used CDs and DVDs for things more recently.

ggm2• 4 years ago

Is Japan still the stand-out land of the facsimile or has that ended now? I think I also saw it in use, in a Greek travel agent in the mid-2000s but that aside, She dead.

frxx• 4 years ago

I think it's still Japan and Germany, even though declining in both.

jamesfinlayson2• 4 years ago

Does it still see real use in Japan? I have a friend who's a sales rep and they periodically get orders faxed in from regional parts of Australia.

ggm2• 4 years ago

I think floppy disks would be a perfectly cromulent way to distribute sudo one-time key lists:

if you don't know how to read the disk, you aren't worthy to be root.

pndy• 4 years ago

That reminds me of Polish Social Insurance Institution (Zakład Ubezpieczeń Społecznych) which in 2008 announced a tender for the supply of 130k standard 3.5-inch floppies for about 120k PLN (back then) [1]

[1] https://pastebin.com/raw/fnQAgViu (translated from original at https://www.pcworld.pl/news/ZUS-oglasza-przetarg-na-130-tysi...)

jethronethro• 4 years ago

I (jokingly) wonder if this is someone's idea of perfect security, with them thinking Who's going to be able to read what's on these floppies? No one has an FDD anymore, do they? And who remembers what a floppy disk is, anyway? (I'm sure that all sounds better in Japanese ...)

That said, it's more than likely institutional inertia is behind the clinging to old tech.

Japan Digital Minister declares a war on floppy discs

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