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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Anonymous2006-03-26 14:19
>>3
you fail, thermite does not explode. thermite burns at an extremely high temp. and can burn thru an engine block. lurk more.
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Mr. SCIIIIEEEEEENNNNNCNCCCCCE2006-03-30 20:55
>>41
More precisely, thermite uses a chemical reaction in which powdered aluminum and powdered iron oxide become aluminum oxide and molten iron. It doesn't explode, but it can spatter a bit--it's a very energetic reaction. The molten iron it produces is literally white-hot and you can't look at it directly without goggles because it hurts your eyes like staring at the sun.
If there is any trace of moisture present on any surface it touches, it'll instantly flash-vaporize into steam. That can cause the molten iron to spatter and spray further than you might expect.
Thermite is dangerous stuff and in my opinion it's STOOPID to play with it.
Just keep the hd outside and a hammer or a pickaxe nearby. Works like a charm.
If you use an explosive and a police officer is harmed by the explosion you have bigger problems than a piracy trial.
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edf2006-03-31 17:45
Also, why not bury a nas with wifi in your garden and put the antenna in your tree or something like that. Also heard someone built their server into a stonewall. but isn't really sitable if you want to be able to change faulty equipment.
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Anonymous2006-04-02 20:12
Why not use thermite? place a small amount on the top of the harddrive and wire up a firing mechanism.....
I used to install rockets with submitters in my backyard. They have water resistant capsules for stuff and an inflateable balloon. When the time is coming I send them a few miles into the ocean. Works like charm.
Kevin Rose's thebroken "teaches" you how to fill a laptop drive bay with thermite. The procedure is pretty complicated though -
1)Fill with thermite
2)Ignite
3)Hide from 4chan party van
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Anonymous2006-04-04 13:49
>>53
Why does Dr. Claw have to run from the 4chan party van
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Anonymous2006-04-06 19:40
lol, play some classical thunder like dies irae while blowing it up for more effect, might get a standing ovation.
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Anonymous2006-04-07 21:45
Just so you guys know, it's AGAINST US LAW to do stuff like this. IE if you are a suspect of CP and the key to your encryption has been destroyed but they have your computer you can still get into deep trouble. It just so happens that there was a pedo in my hometown. He put a huge electronic magnet in his front door that is always on and when the cops came all of the cool stuff they took out of his house was fried, I assume. But he got many, many years in the state pen.
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Anonymous2006-04-08 0:17
>>58
A magnet powerful enough to erase a harddisk from a couple feet away would be so powerful I'd be dangerous to operate. Metal objects would fly towards you at dangerous velocities. That story is total bullshit.
A magnetic disk has a low permeability and uses a strong magnetic field at the drive head to write bits. And remember, magnetic field strength descreses according to distance^2.
An encrypted volume appears as nothing more than random data. They can't prove it's encryted data as long as you have plausible deniability.
I so want one of those super-dangerous giant neodymium magnets. You know, the ones where you have to sign a disclaimer before they let you buy it. Even though I know it would end in me breaking my fingers or tearing the shadow mask out through the front of my TV or something...
i stumbled on that site just before reading this. those are awesome, im thinking about buyng a couple. i'll be sure to give pics of me tearing crap up, too.
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viper2006-04-12 7:06 (sage)
you idiots, right click file and under properties choose hidden
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This was taken from thebroken.org which has a self-destructing laptop. The problem is that it would burn down the house. An EM field would be the best way to destroy data, but there's the issue of all these solutions leaving evidence that you're trying to hide something. In which case they'll charge you without evidence. (It happens) So the best solution would be plausible deniability. "Honest officer, I didn't know my open wireless network was being used to pirate movies."
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Anonymous2006-04-19 20:00
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it would take up too much room if is rigt next to your computer, i'd rater have it all sotred in a memory stick, and the when tthe feds come i'll just stick it in my pooper...
but you'll sill have to delete the fact you came to 4chan
Saw an episode of Law and Order where a guy had hidden a degausing loop by the door. When the police walked out the door it wiped the hard drive. Don't know if that would actually work or not, or how powerful the loop would have to be, but I've seen TV repair men build their own out of old extension cords.
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Anonymous2006-04-24 21:04
Saw an episode of Law and Order where a guy had hidden a degausing loop by the door. When the police walked out the door it wiped the hard drive. Don't know if that would actually work or not, or how powerful the loop would have to be, but I've seen TV repair men build their own out of old extension cords.
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Anonymous2006-04-24 21:38
>>76
>degausing loop
Is that spelled right? If so, what the heck is it?
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Anonymous2006-04-24 21:56
ever degaussed yer monitor?it pretty much "cleans" whatever you degause. whatever electronic device that passes thru it that carries info is totally refreshed.
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Anonymous2006-04-24 22:00
Open it and burn the insides. No way to recover data from ashes of burned plastic.