Always be prepared.
All assemblies will be rigged inside the disk or directed at the platters from underneath, possibly removing the bottom casing. Should use RC-car remote detonator.
| Explosives | ||
|---|---|---|
| Gunpowder/Mg charge | Bombs 101 | Attempt 001 Hard Drive Detonator #001 from Jamie Wilkinson on Vimeo. |
| Model rocket engine | Sustained, directed, and very hot | Planned |
| Thermite | “Nasty stuff”; highly effective but messy (manslaughter messy) | Not planned |
| Chemical | ||
|---|---|---|
| Hydrochloric acid | Acid 101 | Planned |
| Fluoroantimonic acid or Fluorosulfuric acid | Strongest commercially available acids (superacids) | Planned |
| Mercury vials | Been told that mercury has corrosive properties on disks | Planned |
| Sand | Inject while disk is still moving (not a 100% use case) | Planned |
| Mechanical/Electrical | ||
|---|---|---|
| Bulk tape eraser | Bulky, requires external power | Not planned |
| Run 220v | Highly effective, may start a fire | Planned |
| “Flux compressor” | can allegedly crush the hard drive like an aluminum can; requires power, probably prohibitively expensive; does not actually exist? | Not planned |
| Epoxy injector | May not result in sufficient disk damage | Not planned |
| Pneumatic spike | Large, unweildy, but highly effective | Planned |
| Commercial | ||
|---|---|---|
| IronKey USB drive | Heavy duty hardware+software encryption and a “self-destruct” mechanism (needs testing) | |
| EDT: Enhanced harddrive | “A destruction technology is imbedded in the hard drive casing and can be initiated by as many as 17 remote triggers. Once deployed, the data stored on the disks is destroyed beyond forensic recovery. The process is non-toxic, non-combustible and does not cause any collateral damage to the other parts of the computer. The process is self-powered.” (unreleased as of feb. 5th 2008) | |
| Kevin Rose & 4 lbs of thermite | |
| Barry Woods Blast furnace | |
| More Barry Woods destroys disks | rail spike, .45-70 lever action rifle |
| General computer explosion | |
| Running 220v | |
| More explosives | |
| 36th Communications Sq. and 36th CES/CED (Explosive Ordinance Disposal team) personnel destroy 300 classified hard drives….the fun way! | |
| 70g HMTD charge blows up microwave – awesome |