{"id":26066,"date":"2016-05-26T05:46:50","date_gmt":"2016-05-26T12:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/a-computer-that-uses-8-inch-floppy-disks-coordinates-the-operational-functions-for-nuclear-forces"},"modified":"2017-04-26T13:04:43","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T20:04:43","slug":"a-computer-that-uses-8-inch-floppy-disks-coordinates-the-operational-functions-for-nuclear-forces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/a-computer-that-uses-8-inch-floppy-disks-coordinates-the-operational-functions-for-nuclear-forces","title":{"rendered":"A computer that uses 8-inch floppy disks \u201ccoordinates the operational functions\u201c for nuclear forces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-computer-that-uses-8-inch-floppy-disks-coordinates-the-operational-functions-for-nuclear-forces.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>America\u2019s Department of Defense (DOD) \u201ccoordinates the operational functions of the United States\u2019 nuclear forces with a 1970s computer system that uses 8-inch floppy disks\u201d says a report by the United States Government Accountability Office.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>On January 13, US President Barack Obama, speaking at the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC), addressed the issue of cybersecurity, one day after the official Twitter account for the US Central Command (Centcom) was hacked by supporters of the Islamic State. <\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/us-government-8-inch-floppy-drives-outdated-technology-gao-report-463580?rx=us\">http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/us-government-8-inch-floppy-drives-o...3580?rx=us<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America\u2019s Department of Defense (DOD) \u201ccoordinates the operational functions of the United States\u2019 nuclear forces with a 1970s computer system that uses 8-inch floppy disks\u201d says a report by the United States Government Accountability Office. On January 13, US President Barack Obama, speaking at the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC), addressed the issue [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":109,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26066"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56367,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26066\/revisions\/56367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}