Consider a company that uses Data Flow Diagrams $($DFD$)$ to model the flow of information within its software systems. The design team faces a challenge in managing how data is handled and stored across various components of the system. They encounter a common query about why data cannot flow directly between two data stores within the DFD$.$ Why can't data flow directly between two data stores in a Data Flow Diagram?

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This practice is prohibited by the rules governing DFDs$.$

A data store is intended to act as a passive repository that does not initiate data transfer.

Direct data transfer might lead to data corruption.

Data stores would end up merging, which is not permissible.