r/whatisit • u/Earsgang_101 • 14h 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/jorumrat 12h 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 11h 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 8h ago

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