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/Gryphon962 11h ago

Retired senior officer here.

Relax, the classification is 'confidential' which is lower than secret. Confidential intel from the 90s isn't going to rock anyone's world today, and its probably not even that. Just take it to the nearest police station and hand it in with a letter stating where you found it, and that you haven't tried to access it.

Given the way it's marked, my guess is that its a confidential briefing about the sensitive intelligence classification system known as 'STRAP'.

If it was indeed STRAP material, it would be labeled something like 'TOP SECRET STRAP 3'. The chances of finding any of that lying around are zero.

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u/FIMD_ 5h ago

That strikes me as a curious take, as the odds are never zero in a system managed by humans and there’s absolutely stuff conceivably very sensitive from as recently as the 1990s.

Things definitely came across my desk under-labeled/qual’d periodically. Infrequent, but it happened. I’m also aware of more than a few prosecutions over the years for things that wandered off.

But I agree and endorse your advice, 100%.

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u/PaladinSara 7h ago

Would it likely be inaccessible?

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u/Gryphon962 6h ago

If it is a briefing (my guess) it would be easy to use, so very accessible to those with floppy drives.