A holdover from floppy disks on computers, am I the only one who thinks the write protect tab on memory cards is pointless?

By enabling Write protection, the data in the disk will not be modified. Thus it can prevent virus attack on USB Data storage or unauthorized file access/copy from Windows 11/10 OS to a USB drive ...

The floppy disk had become an old pair of shoes, ... the notch on the side that you had to cover with tape if you wanted to write protect the disk, ...

In brief: If you're old enough to know that floppy disks are more than just save icons, nostalgically recalling pulling down write-protect tabs, scribbling on the labels, and those storage boxes ...

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