Public Internet access and floppy drives -Reply

[Michael Sauers]

>So they can use any disk they have.  No uploads, no viruses.


Unfortunately, some viruses only need you to just access the disk so not
allowing anything to be uploaded won't protect you completely.  (Not that
there's a way to protect any computer completely short of unplugging it,
locking it in a closet and loosing the key ;-)

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