“The Department of Government Efficiency, Musk’s vehicle. made news by “discovering” the General Services Administration uses tapes, and plans to save $1M by switching to something else (disks, or cloud-based storage).”
“The Department of Government Efficiency, Musk’s vehicle. made news by “discovering” the General Services Administration uses tapes, and plans to save $1M by switching to something else (disks, or cloud-based storage).”
The ultimate defense against hacking is low tech storage. Tape is stable. As long as you keep magnets away from it.
Not even Elons Incels could get at that data.
Tape is also difficult to steal. The machines to read the tapes are expensive and uncommon, a tape reading machine requires no internet connection, meaning it can’t be subject to man-in-the-middle attacks, and the physical storage devices can be secured and guarded when not in use.
This fucking idiot is gonna lose the plans for our nukes, isn’t he. Just like when he disabled half of twitter because he physically yanked a server rack out of the building without knowing what it did.