[mikeash]

I don't think so:

> “The floppy disks and associated technology are tried and true,” I was told. “As you can imagine, we want to ensure the utmost in reliability and efficacy when operating such a critical weapon system. Therefore, if a system is ‘old,’ but still reliable, we are inclined to use it.”

That's a quote, not a direct claim by the article, but the article presents it as factual and doesn't follow it up with anything but confirmation.

[6d6b73]

"if a __system__ is 'old'" is the key phrase here.

[mikeash]

Yes, but at the beginning the speaker explicitly calls out floppy disks as "tried and true" when they definitely are not. Tried, yes, but not true.

I can buy the argument that the systems as a whole are trustworthy even if the floppy disks they use kind of suck. But this quote goes beyond that.