I know this isn't strictly tech, but I felt it's the best place for it.
People talk (on 4chan and such places) of raids by the police on their house to recover hard drives due to suspicions of CP or of pirated content.
I was wondering if anyone knew of a case where someone actually managed to destroy their Hard Drive, either remotley or before anyone could get to it, or any stories of the sort.
Could it hypothetically be fitted with some sort of... remote water filling thing?
Post anything relevant please.
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Anonymous2006-02-21 20:10
Water would do nothing to destroy a harddrive, the cops have advanced tech to read stuff thats meant to be gone. I guess you could pack 50g of APAN in your tower or something, but then you'll asking for more raping.
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Anonymous2006-02-21 23:59
explode a HD? smash it with a sledge hammer? theres also a floppy disk u can make that nukes a hd, but that takes time. and theres also the issue of the cops jsut raiding your house, theyd have to ask you to search it first, even before getitng the warrant. piracy isnt THAT illegal, mind you. and by then youd have plenty time to use a D's boot&nuke. (isnt called D's boot&nuke?)
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Anonymous2006-02-22 3:34
Darik's Boot & Nuke.
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Anonymous2006-02-22 7:50
Stick it in a 7 Tessla magnet coil
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Anonymous2006-02-22 8:27
Don't use a hard drive. Boot off a LiveCD and keep everything in RAM. If the cops arrive, all your CP will disappear the instant they unplug the computer to take it away for evidence. For maximum mindfuck load the whole OS into RAM and remove the CD, so when they get to the station they find a computer totally lacking any storage medium. Works best if the computer is on when they arrive so that they can see it running.
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can, but onty by the CIA when it contains the location of alien ships...
(there are theoretically traces of the previous content left even in D-rams and even after powering them off, but it's pretty sure not pratically usable)
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Anonymous2006-02-27 5:00
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why physically desroy HDs?
way too bothersome and insecure...
all you need is strong encryption, and a medium that contains the key that you can destroy...
without the key the content of the disks is as good as random data.
an interesting question is if it suffices to just not tell the passphrase to your key...
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Anonymous2006-02-27 6:39
Just pop it in the microwave for 30 seconds. Easy.
Keep another computer running in some secretive area of your house, and network this one with your normal computer, then, just save everything you do to this secret computer. You'll still have a Hard drive hosting the operating system, so it won't look like you're hiding anything.
Like I said, this is somewhat farfetched, but it seems like it would work nicely.
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Anonymous2006-03-15 12:04
>>24
1. It's not farfetched. Remote storage is being used a lot more now (be it a file/media server stashed away somewhere, or a self-contained network-ready hard disk).
2. It wouldn't work, because, gee, do you think the Feds might have a little thing like A SEARCH WARRANT!? They would find it and you'd look all the more suspicious for stashing a NAS array in your attic.
by the way, I tried Darik's boot & nuke, it sure as hell takes a long time. Lesee, it's cleared 8% of a 12GB hard drive after 10 minutes. I guess this wouldn't be good if they were right outside your house, you'd have to know they were coming about 5 hours before, because I know most people have bigger hard drives than 12GB.
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Anonymous2006-03-15 18:23
You would have to worry about Stellar Phoenix.
Unless, of course, you literally exploded your hard drive.
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Anonymous2006-03-15 20:33
followup from >>26 DBAN will kill your hard drive. As in, once the cops are gone, you can't really reformat and install winblows again. But it's better than being arrested if you have 5 hours.
stick the hard drive on top of the case unplugged, no warrant for searching the HDD on your desk
they can take the computer, then come back with a new warrant for just the HDD
I wonder if you could install a very powerful electromagnet next to the hard-drive and have a "In case of cops." switch which turns it on? I'm pretty sure that'd do the trick.
possible, but since your at it, why not strap c4 to the side, instead? or coat your HD in c4! that way your comp suddenly goes BOOM! when they try to hi-jack it!
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Anonymous2006-03-24 21:52
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Anonymous2006-03-25 3:49
lol pedos shitting themselves about the 4chan partyvan
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Anonymous2006-03-26 11:53
i saw a thing on tv about htis a while were this guy had attached 3 oz. of thermite to his hdd and set up a remote switch and took his computer ourside and detonated it...damn near caught his house on fire lol