Re: Nice quiet, private, anonymous life??

["F. Fox" <kitsune.or@xxxxxxxxx>]

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Alexander W. Janssen wrote:
> mark485anderson@xxxxxx wrote:
>> If I was in your position I might consider putting some bulk
>> demagnetizers near my hard drives with a panic switch, with backups to a
>> secure unknown location. 
> 
> Now this is definitively a bizarre idea... :-)
> 
> That reminds me of the "nuke gateway"-function in the game Uplink[1].
(snip)

Although bizarre, this thread is not the first where I've heard of
non-electronic panic-button-triggered data destruction mechanisms.

Some I've heard of, at least purportedly:

* Magnetism;
* Incindieries (I can't spell that word worth crap);
* Microwaves (the "Firedrive");
* Explosives (the plastique idea from earlier - I don't recommend it).

I still think the best idea is a few scrubs of pseudorandom data, and
then a sledgehammer to disable the physical mechanism (if you want extra
security, and have no intentions of reusing the drive); of course, for
the ultra-paranoid, this method will require a while for the PR streams
to finish. =:oD

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F. Fox
CompTIA A+, Net+, Security+
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