Legacy Media Is Critical‑Infrastructure Risk

Government and safety systems often run on obsolete physical media (here, floppy disks in air traffic control) that create operational fragility, maintenance burdens, and attack surface; systematic upgrades (a named replacement and rollout schedule) both reduce risk and surface new governance questions about procurement, testing, and rollout timelines. The FAA example makes the tradeoffs tangible: an announced replacement (E‑IDS) and a commitment to install it at 435 sites by 2028. — Updating or leaving legacy media in place shapes national resilience, cybersecurity posture, procurement politics, and public safety, so tracking such upgrades signals where state capacity is being rebuilt or remains fragile.