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by 082349872349872 2102 days ago
Extremely monitored systems should probably communicate by tape, or cdrom, or similar write-mostly data diode medium. I've heard the US launch network updated mostly via paper tape for a long time. Today it occurred to me that people could, in principle, hand verify that two short paper tapes were identical, without needing to trust the integrity of any technological black boxes.