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Japan declares war on floppy disks for government use - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32663995 - Aug 2022 (130 comments)

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Ask HN: Why is there still a market for floppy disks? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31658880 - June 2022 (12 comments)

Tokyo says long goodbye to beloved floppy disks - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29064316 - Nov 2021 (12 comments)




I've read an article about Japanese policeman that've lost a floppy disks with personal data of some Japanese men, it was a story from this January.

This data leak, due to obscurity and the volume was more of a joke in my country, than a serious news. I do however wonder, what it was back in the day? I've never heard of any large scale data leaks involving floppy disks, perhaps I'm too young.




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