Re: Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks

From	Zersterer <nochsfentor@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, alt.slack, talk.bizarre
Subject	Re: Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks
Date	2024-07-15 13:29 -0500
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Dimensional Traveler wrote:
> On 7/15/2024 6:29 AM, JAB wrote:
>> On 14/07/2024 21:14, Anssi Saari wrote:
>>> JAB <noway@nochance.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> Some of the reluctance does seem to stem from paper secure, e-mail
>>>> insecure though. So recently my better half had to print a document
>>>> out, sign and scan it and then e-mail it back. What's the point in
>>>> that?
>>>
>>> I actually got a cheapo printer/scanner/copier a few years back since
>>> both me and my wife happened to have a need to do just that, dealing
>>> with some bureaucracy.
>>>
>>> I believe here in Finland it's because of laws that govern the public
>>> sector and what they can accept and what the current interpretation of
>>> those laws is. Companies aren't under such regulation and here often use
>>> digital signature services backed with strong authentication.
>>
>> Personally I think a lot of it comes down to those that make the rules 
>> just don't really understand how security is achieved. I remember 
>> going through an exchange with World of Tanks customer support to get 
>> a GDPR request processed. They insisted that I could only do that if I 
>> linked my phone number. Trying to explain to them that if I control 
>> the credentials that are used to link my mobile phone the it adds 
>> nothing to security somewhat fell on deaf ears.
> 
> Probably because the linkage wasn't for security for you but for control 
> for them.
> 
Still, after the AT&T fiasco in 2022, reported one week ago in 2024, big 
mainstream companies should have some sense of user's security.

If not they will be eaten alive when they fuck up.

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Re: Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks Zersterer <nochsfentor@yahoo.com> - 2024-07-15 13:29 -0500

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