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Re: Destroying a hard drive for 100%. [Re: Gumby]
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I'm sure because of it we're responsible for several microwaves containing traces of toxic plastic/metal residue, and passing them on to unsuspecting people's Easy Mac and such.  :thumbup:

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Re: Destroying a hard drive for 100%. [Re: GrizzyCappy]
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wiping utilities work fine. the idea that you must physically destroy the platters is a myth.


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Re: Destroying a hard drive for 100%. [Re: wilshire]
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an external drive with the magnetometer from an old microwave built so the output of the mag is directly against the hard drive. One flick of a switch turns data to chaos. Way too much EMP for any data to survive.It will work on any magnetic storage device from a HD to tape. Complete wipe if one has at least 3-5 minutes. The disks are destroyed to the point they cannot be reassembled and mined.
I have been thinking of making and selling HD killers that install into the case and have a software activation that will activate the magnetometer if any attempts to access unauthorized is detected.


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Re: Destroying a hard drive for 100%. [Re: whiterasta]
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That's a freakin' awesome idea.

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Re: Destroying a hard drive for 100%. [Re: Toolbar]
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Toolbar said:
Why would military come to a computer repair service when they specifically train people like that in the military. ?


Not quite sure- but this shop is a favorite of the local PC community, it's possible some major knew us. All I know is they were some very serious-looking Air Force brass. Three or four guys over two days. Captain was the lowest rank I saw.

And they were from the Academy- now why didn't they get some smart-ass cadet to fix it? Shit, now I'm confused...


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Re: Destroying a hard drive for 100%. [Re: wwonka]
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wwonka said:
how many geniuses have you met that enlisted in the military?


He said Air Force...those ppl are not average grunts!


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Re: Destroying a hard drive for 100%. [Re: John Smith]
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Rub it up and down with a magnet, then put it in boiling hot olive oil. Unless you go on myspace boasting about how much weed you're growing, you're unlikely to have this situation.


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Re: Destroying a hard drive for 100%. [Re: EllisDSox]
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I thought I heard or read somewhere that if police come to your house with a warrant and find evidence that you have recently destroyed your hard drive - they can use that against you as evidence anyways or some shit..


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Re: Destroying a hard drive for 100%. [Re: Mickalopagus]
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my advise.. thats some good material you dont want to throw it all away based on the mere possibility that popo gonna come knocking at your door. every night just when you turn off the computer, manually take out the hard drive, replace with a clean one, and put er right up the bum. they wont never think of lookin there mate!


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Re: Destroying a hard drive for 100%. [Re: Mickalopagus]
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Couldn't you just run your wires through your walls, sneakily wiring your moniter to a cpu (thats as fresh as the pope's smile) you have hidden away somewhere.

Because if they take your computer, they are just going to unplug all the wires in back and take the case, they are not going to trace down every single wire, especially if you have wired it into your wall.

Not terribly technological or sparky or anything. Just the old bait and switch.


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Re: Destroying a hard drive for 100%. [Re: wwonka]
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The best way to erase ALL info so it can't be recovered is to do a low-level format. It writes 1's and 0's to every sector on every track.

Normal formats just rewrite the partition table so it doesn't know where the information is *even though it's still there*.

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Re: Destroying a hard drive for 100%. [Re: wwonka]
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wwonka said:
Couldn't you just run your wires through your walls, sneakily wiring your moniter to a cpu (thats as fresh as the pope's smile) you have hidden away somewhere.

Because if they take your computer, they are just going to unplug all the wires in back and take the case, they are not going to trace down every single wire, especially if you have wired it into your wall.

Not terribly technological or sparky or anything. Just the old bait and switch.


Build a safe with usb plugs. Put an external drive in the safe. Wouldn't they need a second warrant to open the safe?

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Re: Destroying a hard drive for 100%. [Re: Cowgold]
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slackophage says:
Can it turn my 386 into a 486 using only software, too?


Erm, listen i prboerbly know a lot more about computers than you do. in fact i also know that this site may be insecure, if you guys dont have some cool way of preventing javascript from the geturl() function of actionscript, the flash inclusion thing is probably a security risk, someone could redirect anyone to a cookie logger using XSS. jsut thought you guys might want to know.


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Re: Destroying a hard drive for 100%. [Re: Tomo]
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Tomo said:
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slackophage says:
Can it turn my 386 into a 486 using only software, too?


Erm, listen i prboerbly know a lot more about computers than you do.


If you think you can irrecoverably wipe a HDD via software in 5 seconds, I'd have to disagree.

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Re: Destroying a hard drive for 100%. [Re: HB]
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HB said:
Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.




hahahahahaha!


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Re: Destroying a hard drive for 100%. [Re: Big_Whoop]
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Big_Whoop said:
HB said:
Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.




hahahahahaha!



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Re: Destroying a hard drive for 100%. [Re: JunkFood]
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You'd have to use an electromagnet, as no permanent magnet is capable of hitting the magnetic power of an electromagnet. Permanent magnets can't even clear data off a creditcard.

There's proof about this on Mythbusters too. And it CAN completely destroy a harddrive in a few seconds, Mr. Slackophage. Keep in mind electromagnets of small sizes can be enough to hold onto something over 10,000x its own weight. If you were to build one powerful enough, you could probably physically damage the inside of a harddrive by causing metal parts to seperate and bend within.


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Re: Destroying a hard drive for 100%. [Re: Maverick]
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I was refuting a claim that it could be done in 5 seconds with software.

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Re: Destroying a hard drive for 100%. [Re: slackophage]
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You could keep a long powerful magnetic bar on both sides of your door to where the computer is and flick it on, when they walk through that door with it in their hands its done.


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Re: Destroying a hard drive for 100%. [Re: GrizzyCappy]
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Maybe try to find the Microcode virus, and keep it handy for future use.

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