I have thought about a nail gun and a concrete nail.
I have one that was cheap and easy to use It takes a 22cal nail gun
cartridge.
I have thought that it would be an interesting way to have an emergency
quick way to destroy disk drives.
Setup a concrete nail in a hardened steel tube with an electric trigger
on the cartridge.
Alternately I could just use a 5LB hammer but that would be slower and
way fewer sparks.
It is the method that U.S. aircrew supposedly were expected to use for
some surveillance aircraft.
On 12/18/2015 11:37 PM, Anthony de Boer wrote:
[email protected] wrote:
From Metro News today:
Two top McGuinty aides charged in gas plants computer probe
....
Faist was paid $10,000 for wiping the drives out of the taxpayer-funded
Liberal caucus budget, police allege. The party subsequently repaid the
sum to the public treasury.
....
Ten grand to erase some hard drives?
Boot a Linux CD or USBKey.
Change to the root directory.
rm -rf *.
Done.
Or maybe it was $50.00 to erase the drives and $9950.00 for 'discretion'.
For less than that you could probably destroy the drives and pay back
their depreciated cost. Beats finding out that someone's forensic
recovery skills trump your data-deletion-fu.
I'm told the Pentagon leans toward taking its busted hard drives to a
nearby army base and melting them down with thermite. I've found that a
.25" drill bit tends to go dull really fast drilling through old hard
drives, but a pneumatic chisel with a pointy bit turns them into
unreadable scrap pretty quickly.
The project being worth $10k to someone does rather say that someone
found that a better bargain than going to jail.
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