Security in the 90s.

In case anyone can't find the security parts I found it:

here, I added more in case you guys didn't notice the lock
I hope they weren't counting on security through obscurity, because if so you've just ruined them
I don't understand...
Edit: woosh my friends 😎
- I can provide some context. In the 90s, over 40 years ago, they enjoyed displaying their floppy discs to gain their guests’ envy but they were still wary of theft, so they placed them inside of heavy transparent enclosures. This practice descended from the premise of china cabinets. I’ve circled the floppy discs in blue for clarity.

Locks keep honest people honest.

That's all.

And children from messing with them
Considering most petty crime is a crime of opportunity then yeah. Locks are a good thing
- They are important, but they are limited in the scope of what they can do. Just watch LockPickingLawyer or BosnianBill or Deviant Ollam's I'll Let Myself In: Tactics of Physical Pen Testers, This Key is Your Key, This Key is My Key and The Search for the Perfect Door.
I hate this saying because it's claiming lazy thieves are honest people. If you would steal a bike outside a grocery store just because it's not locked you're not an honest person.
- Locks counters the finders keepers rule.
- It’s a saying from a different morality than your own. You see honesty as an intrinsic, binary trait. The saying is from the perspective of sin, where everyone is dishonest and through conscious acts attempts to achieve relative honesty. By locking goods, you reduce temptation, making the struggle for honesty easier for another right-minded sinner.
During the pandemic I learned how to pick locks for fun and that was the exact thought that I had

What kind of sociopath stored their 3.5" floppies with the metal shutter up?

Someone who wants to make super sure that no dust gets into the discs, as even a single mote of dust in the drive will set off a chain reaction that destroys every universe simultaneously.
At least, according to my mother. She always insisted that floppy discs be stored like this since dust could settle in the tab if left the other way.
- Isn’t the lid and key supposed to keep the dust out?

Pretty much everyone I knew who had an Amiga had that box, and from the age of about 6 I was able to jimmy it open easily. Not that I had nefarious intent, just wanted to play Monkey Island.

Can confirm. Had Amiga, and had that box.
- had that box, didn't have an amiga.
  Got one 2 months ago though!

The idea of data security just wasn’t a thing until very recently.

Credit cards sales were recorded using ink imprints of the cards’ raised numbers, and the “duplicate paper” was then discarded with little thought into the trash. Phone books listed names and addresses of anyone who didn’t pay extra to have them omitted (very few people bothered). Checks (the things you wrote and handed out to ANYONE from the phone company to the paperboy) usually included social security numbers, and most universities also used Social Security Numbers as student ID numbers and required them to be printed on just about everything until well into the 90s. Simpler times.

The uni I am going to right now, focused on technology, decided to use birth numbers (similar to SSN I guess) as a password for housing accounts of new students.
Birth number isn't even treated like something that should be super private. I think it still is considered private information like phone number and email address, but its only purpose is supposed to be identification. Some 4 digits that are chosen somehow + date of birth.
I was also surprised to just get sent the password for another system by email in plaintext.
Better than McDonald's security I guess: https://bobdahacker.com/blog/mcdonalds-security-vulnerabilities
I’m not sure I ever saw a check with a social security number on it, but the rest of this is absolutely true
- Was a common practice for me until my mid-20's. If it wasn't pre-printed on then, cashiers would ask what it was and write it in the check.
- I just burned some old ones I found in an old file cabinet the other day. I don’t think I ever had them myself, but I l remember a teller asking whether I wanted to include it.

My dad kept grainy porn gifs (technically, an animated format OLDER than .gif) on 5 inch floppies in one of these. I know it was porn because the lock sucked shit 😌

Good god it took me a while to realize you said grainy, not granny.

added layer of security i'd say

You could get in without the keys if you dropped it from chest height but there would be evidence of accessing the data.

That plastic lid opens from prying gently at the rear pressure hinges pretty easily, if I recall correctly.
Or if you figured out how to make or buy a wave rake.

I bet that whole case is just Microsoft Office 97. I remember that was like 50 floppy disks.

When I was 13, I looked at web pages about lock picking and then successfully picked the lock on our floppy disk case. Felt like a Mission Impossible operative for two whole days after that.

Pretty similar to a lot of mailboxes

Or filing cabinets. Which is where sensitive information was often stored in the days of floppy disks.
- And, this case could be set inside a locked filing cabinet, for twice the security!