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It would be cool if there was a fail safe switch that nuked the hard drive with microwaves or something crazy like that when it was pressed. That would be one l
by Uptrenda 11y ago
It would be cool if there was a fail safe switch that nuked the hard drive with microwaves or something crazy like that when it was pressed. That would be one laptop I'd buy.
- jerf 11y agoIf you're going to go that route, you want an encrypted hard drive whose keys can be destroyed at a moment's notice. I believe that's off-the-shelf tech now, but I'm not sure where to point you at it.
- csours 11y agoIt would also have to have no recovery mechanism, otherwise that could be (ab)used to recover data after nuke.
- beeboop 11y agoWhat's the point of this? You'd only ever use it if you were about to have it seized, and doing so would be destruction of evidence.
- rasz_pl 11y agowatch this years defcon presentation by Zoz, destroying hdd reliably is a difficult task