@sjvn less, regrettably, than you would think.

@sjvn That's about a 1-minute job with my lockpicks.

@sjvn @Lazarou I asked my dad about his highly secure disk bin once. He said those were all the games he hadn't installed yet. He liiiiied it was just spreadsheets ☹️

@sjvn When I lived in a city, I replaced our front door deadbolt lock and when I told my mom that I'd replaced it her reply was:
"You made sure to get a good quality lock."
And I told her:
"The biggest security hole in your house is your windows. If anyone wants to break in, they can. The deadbolt isn't going to stop them."

@sjvn But what maniac stores their floppies upside down?

@sjvn it was enough to keep my colleagues away - who were incapable of returning anything once they’d used it once.

@sjvn I wish. I would say that the current state of #AI enabled software engineering tools like #windsurf , #cursor, and any other that supports the integration with #mcp services do not come close to this level of security.

@sjvn I had stackable banks of drawers for 3.5" disks. Took them to the tropics. Discovered the hard way the effects of thermal cycling on magnetic media. Among other things I lost what turned out to be the only known copy of a long running mailing list. Have some probably unreadable 5.25" media in the attic. And a copy of the Unix V4 tape. 😉

@sjvn @WarnerCrocker I think I can beat that one.

@sjvn the best was that each brand had their own key, you lost yours you could get the reserve from a friend...

@sjvn Lock or not, considering it's air gapped and data on passive medium makes it more secure than anything today. USB sticks and SD cards contains microcontrollers where the firmware can be hacked.