[rescue] nuking from orbit

[Mike Free]

I was thinking something along the same lines with a propane device....but I
hadn't thought of thermite. I don't think thermite would be stable enough
though to last a long time, using aluminum powder and magnesium.

there's a much much cheaper way to do this....

it's called an Estes D12-7 :) small, compact, stable, hot enough to burn
through 1/8" of steel, easy to light, and has that nice ejection charge at
the end that should do some heinous damage to the rest of the computer :)
only takes 6V to light the igniter.

Mike Free
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael S. Schiller" <schiller at mail.agrijag.com>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 11:11 AM
Subject: Re: [rescue] nuking from orbit


> Hmm... I wonder if a device could be made with a bit of thermite in it, so
that
> pushing a button would actually melt the whole drive (and probably kill
the
> computer too) so that that the data is unreadable. Sort of like the flash
paper the
> bookies used to use :)
>
> -Mike
>
> Joshua D Boyd wrote:
>
> > 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.
> >
> > --
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> -Mike
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