[GTALUG] Ten grand for this?

[Alvin Starr]

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:
> phiscock at ee.ryerson.ca 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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