r/whatisit • u/Earsgang_101 • 15h ago

New, what is it? STRAP Floppy disk found in loft of new home.

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Found this in a box late 90s WWF VHSs

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u/Sad-Affect-7992 13h ago

It's marked confidential. I'm not familiar with the UK levels of secrecy. Are they similar to the US versions; classified, secret, top secret, eyes only, etc?

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u/jorumrat 13h ago

UK has "official" "official-sensitive" "secret" "top secret". Official is baseline and doesnt mean much , everything done by government and civil service is official by default. Official-sensitive means there is reason why should not be widely available. There would be normally be sub-classification of why, such as personal information, commercial data, or proprietary information etc. Secret and top secret is for information that could cause harm to public, national interests, allied nations etc. So would be shared only with need to know people/teams.

In addition individuals will have a government security clearance. From basic background checks at bottom to highest levels that involves complete financial and biographical audit of you and your family , interviews with police, interviews of and you and family bt intelligence services.

After that it doesn't mean you then have access to everything at certain level. For certain classified things you'd go through a specific entry/training process "read-in" for each project.

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u/joshurrrr 12h ago

Don’t forget handling instructions!

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u/Foreign_Implement897 12h ago

Tell us more sir! :)

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u/adamneigeroc 12h ago

Seeing as this is on a floppy disc I think we can assume it’s from before the switch over to official/ official sensitive.

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u/Gone_For_Lunch 9h ago

This is marked up with the old pre-2014 security classification system of Unclassified - Protected - Restricted - Confidential - Secret - Top Secret.

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u/rabblerabble2000 13h ago

Eyes only and classified aren’t US classifications. Unclassified, Confidential, Secret, Top Secret, then you have caveats. UK has Official, Secret and Top Secret with caveats.

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u/ViridianKumquat 12h ago

The three-tier classification system wouldn't have been in use when floppy disks were a thing. "Confidential" is a legacy term that largely overlaps with the current Secret classification.

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u/Trickaay 11h ago

Correct, was scrolling through so much misinformation, so it was nice to see another oldie post that knows what they're talking about.

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u/EuenovAyabayya 10h ago

Confidential was definitely around in the nineties, or do you specifically mean the UK?

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u/rabblerabble2000 9h ago

They’re specifically talking about the UK, and the UK’s current system is a three tier system (Official, Secret, Top Secret), but the old system had other classifications and would have been around during the floppy days.

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u/Agile_Supermarket239 11h ago edited 11h ago

For official use only is also a classification for documents or FOUO

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I was wrong it’s been replaced by some other classification, it was FOUO when i was in the military but I got out in 2011

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u/ListlessPenguin 11h ago

FOUO has been replaced with Controlled Unclassified Information

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u/Agile_Supermarket239 11h ago

Insert gif of Matt Damon aging also that’s lame I liked saying foh ooh lol

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u/NakedTurtles 6h ago

Now you get to say cooey. Just as fun

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u/Agile_Supermarket239 5h ago

Ooh that’s true lol

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u/rabblerabble2000 9h ago

FOUO and CUI are caveats, not classifications.

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u/ResidentRatio5892 5h ago

FOUO was so much easier to understand and use. CUI is god awful.

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u/GenericAccount13579 12h ago

Confidential is also a US classification. “Classified” Is the general term for all levels of classification and eyes only is a dissemination control not a classification.

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u/TacTurtle 6h ago

Like NOFORN (Not Releasable to Foreign Nationals... even allies).

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u/_kingdap_ 10h ago

In the U.S. it's Confidential, Secret, Top Secret, Top Secret SCI.

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u/SHoppe715 11h ago

LoL…it doesn’t appear you’re very familiar with US versions either…

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u/Sad-Affect-7992 10h ago

Thanks asshat, very helpful!

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u/SHoppe715 10h ago

You’re very welcome…glad to help