[userbinator]

Aside from that, the upgrades to this critical infrastructure should be resistant to hacking and other vulnerabilities

They should realise that, unlike e.g. USB drives or SSDs or even HDDs[1], floppy disks are dumb raw media and cannot contain any "hidden" behaviour, and the failure modes are well-known.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23735424

[XorNot]

CD and DVD can fill this role though. It's a damn shame optical media progress cranked down like it did.

[trollbridge]

Rewriteable or write once optical media has a rather poor service life… worse than high quality floppies.

[trinix912]

Wouldn't it be quite wasteful to constantly have to burn CDs for that?

[os2warpman]

>floppy disks are dumb raw media and cannot contain any "hidden" behavior

Look up floppy boot sector viruses.

[userbinator]

That's not "hidden".

[userbinator]

It's right in the first sector, plainly readable.