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How to Build a Hard Drive Wind Chime For Spring

Posted by Zonk on from the beware-ninja-hackers dept.

tyrani writes "Spring is just around the corner and the front of the house isn't going to decorate itself. Build a Hard Drive Wind Chime and show your neighbors what a cool geek you really are." He's honest, too. From the article: "Many people linking this page on their blogs claim that this is a secure way of destroying your hard drive and its sensitive data. It is not completely true! The platters are never used in this HOWTO and could potentially be stolen by ninjas while you're making a wind chime and the data recovered by ninja-hackers."

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  1. Wind chimes are the tool of the devil by Neil+Blender · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Not really, but they should be banned. No one wants to hear your windchime at 2am, least of all me. I have actually gone to a few nearby windchimes in the middle of the night and tied them together with fishing line to shut them the hell up.

  2. I'm a bad person. by Capt'n+Hector · · Score: 4, Interesting

    My neighbor had a wind chime. It got to the point where I couldn't stand it anymore, so I waited until they were gone, stole it, and threw it in the garbage. Wind chimes are loud, annoying, repetitive, and no, I'm not a grumpy old man.

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  3. What to do with the platters.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    We used them as plaques for retiring individuals. It was truely unique and folks loved them.

    We used larger 12" platters from some real old disk packs we found. But, you can do the same with smaller platters.

    They engrave nicely. And local engraving shop can handle them with ease.

  4. Uhhh. I submitted this story on WEDNESDAY by windowpain · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Turn Your Old Hard Drive into a Windchime. Wednesday February 23, @10:39AM
    Rejected

    And I even included a link to another page on the subject

    WTF?

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  5. Destroying harddrives by Lord_Dweomer · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Just out of curiosity, and yes, this is somewhat on-topic, how useful is arts and crafts for getting rid of old harddrives?

    I mean, lets say I theoretically have an old harddrive with information on it that I absolutely want permanently destroyed. Whats the best way to do it on the cheap for a college student? I don't have access to acid or anything else like that.

    I don't want to just throw it out because god knows who could find it, so I've wondered about turning it into art that nobody would find suspicious.

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  6. Re:No by hammurderer · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Well there is one good advantage to taking apart the hdd if you have never done it. the magnets are quite strong strong enough to remove the security on most items at best buy and circuit city. Its does take a bit of practice but once you get it you will be able to remove the security pretty quickly. I recommend using both of the magnets on top of eachother tends to work better. WARNING this will only work on physical security I.E. Boxes and Spider wraps. the magnets will not work on soft tags or stickers because those are deactivated using a rf frequency. how do I know this? Well I work at circuit city and have tried to unlock the boxes and It worked. So happy hunting and dont get caught!