While the move may at first seem like a logical decision to modernize government services, critics were quick to point out the benefits of magnetic tapes over digital. The post by DOGE features a Community Note highlighting a few reasons to use magnetic tape, including the fact that they can store data much more efficiently and offer a physical airgap so that data cannot be stolen by cybercriminals. Back in 2020, IBM published an article explaining that as the amount of data stored on the...
