[rescue] nuking from orbit

Joshua D Boyd rescue at sunhelp.org
Thu Aug 30 09:06:43 CDT 2001


On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 01:01:32PM +0100, Paul Sladen wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, G W Adkins wrote:
> > > On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 06:08:48PM -0400, G W Adkins wrote:
> > >
> > > > This is ridiculous.  1 low-level format/verify pass from a real utility,
> >
> > Oh, and by the way, the NSA can kiss my butt.
> > I  _DEFY_  them to come and crack my box.
> 
> I think they would;  They would come to your house, `carefully' knock the
> window through with a large sledgehammer.  /Physcially/ remove the computer
> in question.  `Carefully' open the case with a large tin-opener.  And remove
> the drive.

Didn't he mention that when ever glass breaks, or anything like that, his
thermite lined computer room is ignited?
 
> Place the disk in a vacuum chamber.  `Carefully' break the disk open (I
> expect it would be micro-drivers and twiessers this time!).  And summarily
> take their time with the rest of the gentle process.

I see he also forgot to mention that the hard drive is just a dummy.  The
real data gets stored in a blackhole created inside the l2 cache.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd



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