Floppy disk

That same year was BTK's last year as a free man and the reason as to why he was caught was unsurprisingly because he got too cocky.

In February of 2005, BTK wrote a letter to authorities in which he asked, can I communicate with a floppy disk and not be traced on a computer? Be honest.

Hello, literally what? Can I communicate? Be honest.

What are you literally talking about? I don't know what he was expecting out of that.

Wink, wink.

They were lying and he fell for it.

But when he asked about this floppy disk, he told authorities to write the sentence, Rex, it will be okay as code in the newspaper, the local paper, I guess to give him the green flag that he could send a floppy disk without it being traced back to him.

So police put out the ad in the local newspaper writing, Rex, it will be okay.

Well done.

And then when we went to see Transformers just the other day, Floppy, our good mate formerly of EB Games, who has now got himself a new job, congrats to Floppy, basically hooked me up with two more Mortal Kombat figures.

I've now got a fully invisible...

Where are they? Oh, it's standing here.

It's going to land on the blue.

Floppy.

I love flopping.

I'm a big fan of flopping.

could get off that pig?

Well, that's a girl pig, so probably want to keep her around.

The pig's name is Floppy.

Huh.

None of those are viruses in the technical sense, but they're all malware.

And the reason the terminology matters is that the old mental model, the one from the 90s, where you'd catch a virus from a floppy disk and it'd infect your files, that model doesn't describe what's actually happening now.

Most modern malware isn't viral at all.

It doesn't self-replicate.

That's a fair correction.

The terminology shifted because the threat shifted, not because people were wrong to call viruses viruses.

I still have a floppy disk from that incident, labeled Do Not Run in black marker.

It's got the macrovirus on it.

talk about what we've been playing.

Floppy, what have you been playing?

Why don't you get Braden to do it so he stops looking for that photo?

Well, no, I'm giving him time to do that.

One is on display in the New York City Nintendo Center.

The other one is privately owned and was sold in 2024.

Have a look at this, Floppy.

Oh, was it privately owned by fucking Paris Hilton? Probably.

I like that, baby.

Floppy Disc was the name of my punk band.

Ladies and gentlemen, we are Floppy Disc.

are we are well i think i think the s is in the wrong place probably

probably so

probably so if you're a punk band there's probably a better chance you're floppy dicks than you are floppy disc that's where that uh and i said that fast for a reason

yes got it got it no you you still burn cds standy Where do you play them?

My car still has a CD player.

The police and he start communicating through small ads in the Wichita Eagle.

Finally, he asks the police in one of the communications, What if I were to give you a floppy disk with more details of the killings? Could you identify me?

He asked us, you know, be honest, you know, because the police can't lie.

Well, we can lie if we're catching a serial killer.

The police took a look, and suddenly, with this one mistake, the case was blown wide open.

We were contacted by KSAS Fox TV, and they had received a package.

They didn't initially recognize it as being from him, but then when they opened it up and saw the contents, which included the floppy disk, they called the police department.

They called me and said, hey, we got a floppy disk.

The station notified the police, who searched the area and found the cereal box Rader left filled with documents, many of which revealed planned murders.

There was also a piece of paper addressed directly to authorities, saying, "'Can I communicate with Floppy and not be traced to a computer?' Rader asked.

If the police were honest, they should tell him through a classified ad in the paper." So that's exactly what authorities less than honestly did.

Two weeks later, a local Kansas broadcast station was sent a package containing a floppy disk.