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Ten Ways To Destroy a Hard Disk
Barence writes "Following his blog last week about the homemade hard disk destroyer, Bustadrive, Mike Jennings was deluged with comments from readers, both on the blog and here on Slashdot. Most seemed to like the product, but also offered up far more innovative and madcap methods of hard disk destruction, with a wide range of implements used — household and otherwise. In this follow-up post, he rounds up the best of an imaginative bunch of hard disk destruction methods."
Install Vista on it?
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1) .45 caliber 1911 style handgun (gets the job done)
2) .357 magnum revolver (gets the job done with a louder bang)
3) 10mm auto handgun (gets the job done and lets you pretend to be Ted Nugent)
4) .44 magnum revolver (gets the job done and lets you pretend to be Clint Eastwood)
5) 9mm handgun (gets the job done and lets you pretend that you have a real gun ;)
6) 12 gauge shotgun (gets the job done and looks/sounds really cool)
7) .30-06 rifle (REALLY gets the job done)
8) .50BMG rifle (useful if you run into a hard drive with armor plate)
9) .22LR plinking rifle (gets the job done in a cost effective manner)
10) .223 fired from an AR-15 (gets the job done while scaring the crap out of any nearby big city types that assume any black rifle with a pistol grip is a weapon of mass destruction)
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
And when you win a Darwin award, here I'll be able to say, "I knew him when..."
Freedom isn't free; its price is the well-being of others.
And after you shred the disk with the blender, don't forget to try to return it to get your money back.
Give it to my sister. If her laptop and last five cell phones are any indication, it'll end up with vodka dumped on it after a party or smashed to pieces in the middle of the street or even at the bottom of a toilet in a club. You would never believe how frequently that last one happens.
... aw, who am I kidding, this is Slashdot.
I swear jean designers are in cahoots with cell phone manufacturers. Just slip your hard drive into the back pocket of a girl in a night club wearing tight jeans
My work here is dung.
Now who the hell is going to trust a post from an NPC. Damn DM is trying to fool us again.
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1. buy rare earth magnet. 2. play with magnet. 3. place magnet in pocket. 4. sit down and put macbook on lap. 5. call apple support. 6. tell technician "err it no work" 7. write good review of apple support.
I can confirm that this works.
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Even if destroying the drive wasn't intentional. Sigh.
That's the only way to be sure.
Ezekiel 23:20
I'm surprised they only had a list of ten. There must be 50 ways to wipe your platters.
Just give it a whack, Jack.
Smash it with a van, Stan.
Shoot it to destroy, Roy.
Just listen to me.
Soak it till it rusts, Gus.
You don't need to discuss much.
Toss it in the sea, Lee
And get yourself free.
Don't disrespect the denim sheep.
After shooting a hard drive with a shotgun once, I'm pretty sure you going to want to keep shooting it.
My favorite way to ensure all data is lost on an hard disk is to store the only copy of my Master's thesis on that drive.
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Absolutely true.... there is an easy way to avoid that problem in two simple steps. Either one will work:
1. Don't do anything that will raise the ire of someone with access to an appropriate microsocope.
2. If you can't do one, then stop using hard drives from the 1980s. Dude, where do you even find disk controllers for them that work in modern machines?
-Steve
"I opened my eyes, and everything went dark again"
No, it's true! As a forensic specialist, give me a disk that has been overwritten with zeros, and I can recover approximately 50% of the bits that were on the disk before it was wiped.
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