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How to Erase Your Data With Thermite [Melting Hard Drives]
How to Erase Your Data With Thermite [Melting Hard Drives]
Over at Hackaday they've gone a bit firey destruction crazy, and posted a guide on how to destroy HDDs with thermite—that's the super-high temperature chemical mix used in welding, fireworks, and generalized military destruction. The guide shows how a kilo of burning thermite melts ...
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How-to: Thermite hard drive destruction
How-to: Thermite hard drive destruction
hackaday.com — After the overwhelming response to the Hackit we posted about automated hard drive destruction last fall, we... finally decided to test out some thermite hard drive destruction ourselves. This has been done on The Screen Savers but they did not show up ... (more) How-to: Thermite hard drive destruction
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Erase the data on your HDD with Thermite!
TechChee.com, shop online for gadget, gizmo and hot tech stuff — ... deal with super hot burning such as welding, fireworks, and generalized military destruction. You just need a kilogram of the Thermite to turn everything in your PC including the case, hard drive, platters and all into a pools of melted metals. Thermite is a mixture of iron oxide and aluminum which can reach an iron-melting temperature in just seconds. It sounds pretty dangerous to use if you don’t handle with care, which is likely to burn your entire room into a glowing mess too. via [gizmodo] This entry was posted on Wednesday, September 17th, 2008 at 6:47 am and is filed ...

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