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.
You suck at reading comprehension. Have another go.
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nnd112006-05-22 23:11
blow that fucker up or magnetize it, i dont know if amicrowave will work but someone should try it and report back
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Anonymous2006-05-23 13:14
microwaves dont work all that well.
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Anonymous2006-06-09 15:24
HDs are not always made of plastic, i shot one once and it bent and is pretty heavy, i would say, format the bitch with a seatools disk or something , then get a big ass magnet and dont worry about it anything else works, magnets are basic and cheap
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Anonymous2006-06-09 21:15
>>105 >>107 >>108
Holy shit are you retarded. Hard drive platters are not made of plastic. They are made of aluminum usually, and sometimes glass, but never plastic.
I heard if you bit your HD really hard with your teeth it would explode
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Anonymous2006-06-11 0:27
your teeth might explode, but not the hd, its just a piece of metal like a shiny expensive stack of popcan bottoms, i have shot at hds, and burned them and never seen an explosion,
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Anonymous2006-06-11 0:52
Well I dont brush my teeth so maybe all the bacteria shit inside my mouth will make anything I bite on explode, sorry
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Anonymous2006-06-11 1:18
i dontknow about explode, but maybe eat through it"
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Anonymous2006-06-12 0:28
i used a 10 gauge , that works good too
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Anonymous2006-06-12 17:14 (sage)
delicious hd full of pedo, i must eat it
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Anonymous2006-06-12 23:06
I dont really get the problem
Have your drive outside the case
Get some rare earth magnets on your desk
Need to destroy it?
Toss them in the direction of the hard drive
Good luck getting them off
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Anonymous2006-06-12 23:38
i cummed on a hd once, for a wierd porno?
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Jezal2006-06-15 6:07
If you need a quick way to destroy you HDD('s) just toss it in your microwave along with any disc's with incriminating evidence on them. (or if you could get ahold of defribulator paddles...)
Why not just delete the partition... You can never recover it... Make it simple. Just pop in bart PE and delete the partition. All evidence Gone in just a few mins :D
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Anonymous2006-07-08 6:23
microwawing a hd won`t work,well the drive electronics will get fried but not the platters. The casing would reflect the waves and absorb them too with the result of a lot of sparks and an ouch! hot hd case and a destroyed microwave oven.
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dark!UN412BdHRI2006-07-08 15:52
Hook up a giant coiled electromagnet around the hard drive. And I don't just mean one coil, I mean a <i>big</i> ass electromagnet. Fit that with a large switch (hopefully one that you won't hit by accident), which could easily be made remote. Then, if something goes down, just slam that switch and the hdd (and probably everything else electronic in the area) will be destroyed.
Seriously though, if you have an ext3 filesystem, just do rm -rf / because ext3 rewrites the data with 0s.
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Anonymous2007-12-16 17:40
>>146
sure?.. I don't know a lot about it, and I know linux has a queue for disk operations (and that's why you need to umount, so it can flush the queue for sure), but deleting in ext3 is way too fast to write stuff with 0s, and it would be waaay more efficient to just wipe the i-node clean, which would be the sane thing to do (although then again, I haven't messed with the ext3 source), I guess writing a fuse filesystem that shreded everything deleted would be pretty enterteining (sorry about that last word, I probably mispelled it, I'm not a native english speaker)