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:
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
phiscock@ee.ryerson.ca wrote: 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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