Holiday Hackit: Automated hard drive destruction

One of our recent posts took an interesting tangent: physical hard drive destruction. First, [wolf] wanted to use a 20ga shotgun shell on his hard drive. [brk] suggests an electromagnet applied to the drive while it's still spinning. Everyone thought thermite might be interesting... Finally, [wolf] noted this commercial auto destruction drive that floods itself with an acid mist. I'll suggest a … [Read more...]