- #ANCIENT WARS SPARTA FLOPPY DISK HOW TO#
- #ANCIENT WARS SPARTA FLOPPY DISK UPGRADE#
- #ANCIENT WARS SPARTA FLOPPY DISK PORTABLE#
- #ANCIENT WARS SPARTA FLOPPY DISK CODE#
- #ANCIENT WARS SPARTA FLOPPY DISK PC#
#ANCIENT WARS SPARTA FLOPPY DISK HOW TO#
for some tech info on how to do this with one of the first multiuser 'personal' computers, the Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 16 (and descendents the 16B and the 6000). They're so close that computers that use 8 inch diskettes can typically be modified to run with 1.2MB HD 5.25 drives and media with only a new controller to drive cable and new drive power supply (8 inch drives typically take either AC mains power to run the spindle or 24VDC, and 5.25 drives take 12VDC to run the spindle).
#ANCIENT WARS SPARTA FLOPPY DISK PC#
Actually, it's the other way around, as when IBM built the PC AT and the high-density drives for it they apparently intentionally made the formats nearly identical. The 8 inch standard format is very similar to the 1.2MB 5.25 inch format. I have one, and a Catweasel controller that can read and write basically any format on it. You are more likely to catch and interrupt any significant espionage attempt in this model than in a model where we put all our stuff on a USB drive that's taken to a modern machine in a secure room. That provides a layer of security by requiring high-visibility or excessively slow methods of data access, both of which sharply increase risk in espionage. There are some real difficulties involved in stealing this much data in this form.
#ANCIENT WARS SPARTA FLOPPY DISK PORTABLE#
If you want it all, you must spend weeks if not months copying each individual disk to a portable flash drive. If you want to steal the wealth of information archived here, you must find the disks you want and then copy each of them. If you want to access this top-secret file, it's merely 15kB of text stored on a 40kB disk. Just as with 1000 iteration hashing, these large systems impose a time limitation on mass copy. Further, the media is low-density: you need to physically transport a truckload to get what fits on a modern CD-R, much less on a 64GB microSDHC. The disks themselves are airgapped, as they're not constantly in systems which can read them likewise, there's a huge airgap between a spy and a reader: if the disks are stolen, they need a huge honkin' machine to read them, or they need to use base facilities which have cameras and guards. These old networks are airgapped in so many ways, not just by removing the CAT6 to the Internet.
#ANCIENT WARS SPARTA FLOPPY DISK CODE#
That's why you need a clearance just to touch the computers that make the code that runs the network. They are hardended and locked down, but let's be honest, the airmen have physical access. There are modern computers in the links from SAC to silo. There are modern computers that the programmers code with. There is new stuff and changes all the time. There is probably code in there from the 60's, but it has been reviewed hundreds of times. The endpoints are old, but the stuff in the middle is much newer. The systems are not nearly as outdated as you think. SACCS and SACDIN are nearly the same, often interchanged in terminology. , I figure I won't get a knock on the door. But since most of what I will tell you can already be found here. I am not sure how much I am allowed to say, as my security clearance restricts me for like 75 years or something. I was a programmer for the system, but turned into network admin when they told us to complete the air gap and setup an offline network just for the source code, testing and administration of the system. I used to work for SAC, specifically on SACDIN. Weinstein explained, "Those older systems provide us some, I will say, huge safety, when it comes to some cyber issues that we currently have in the world."" Later, in an interview with Weinstein, Stahl described the disk she was shown as "gigantic," and said she had never seen one that big. "Cyber engineers found out that the system is extremely safe and extremely secure in the way it's developed." While on the base, missileers showed Stahl the 8-inch floppy disks, marked "Top Secret," which is used with the computer that handles what was once called the Strategic Air Command Digital Network (SACDIN), a communication system that delivers launch commands to US missile forces. "A few years ago we did a complete analysis of our entire network," says Weinstein. Jack Weinstein told Leslie Stahl from "60 Minutes" that the bases have extremely tight IT and cyber security, because they're not Internet-connected and they use such old hardware and software.
#ANCIENT WARS SPARTA FLOPPY DISK UPGRADE#
Hugh Pickens DOT Com (2995471) writes "Sean Gallagher writes that the government built facilities for the Minuteman missiles in the 1960s and 1970s and although the missiles have been upgraded numerous times to make them safer and more reliable, the bases themselves haven't changed much and there isn't a lot of incentive to upgrade them.
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