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smacktoward on April 29, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: US Nuclear Missile Silos Still Use Floppy Disks

> Imagine a system so insecure that it will execute whatever the operator has on a floppy disk with full root permissions.

Congratulations, you just invented MS-DOS!

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