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Hard disks are surprisingly hard to destroy on-demand. There was a DEF CON 23 talk [1] exploring ways to quickly wipe your servers in situ using physical method
by magnat 9y ago
Hard disks are surprisingly hard to destroy on-demand. There was a DEF CON 23 talk [1] exploring ways to quickly wipe your servers in situ using physical methods.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bpX8YvNg6Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bpX8YvNg6Y
- FRex 9y agoI instantly though it was this (hilarious) one instead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1M73USsXHdc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1M73USsXHdc
- jacquesm 9y agoThey should have used a plasma torch. Legal, relatively easy to contain too (just put a water bed below it).
- allenz 9y agoEntertaining talk, but the best method is to discard the key for your fully encrypted disk. It's 2017, all your disks use FDE, right?
- zaarn 9y agoSSDs internally yes. Any modern SSD simply uses some random key unless you specify another one. Shredding is as simple as telling it to shredder the key, end of story. Some harddrives do this too, I believe but it's not as widespread yet.