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Obviously the previous approach depends on you having enough time to wait for acid to do its work but in some situations speed is sometimes most important.

Military and security service personnel wanting to avoid information getting into the wrong hands are able to make their hard drives explode. This can be triggered either remotely or by people tampering with the device.

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RE: Verity manual hard drive destroyer (Gallery: How to destroy your hard d
Guardian Data Destruction is the only way to go.
They come to your location and punch/pin the drive then
shred it into small pieces.... (Read the rest)
Posted by: glaga Posted on: 09/10/09 You are currently: a Guest | | Terms of Use
If I had a hammer...  sawatzky | 07/21/08
RE: Verity manual hard drive destroyer (Gallery: How to destroy your hard drive)  bjancar@... | 07/22/08
OSHA?  archerjoe | 07/22/08
De-gausser  bfilipiak@... | 07/22/08
...A slu's a bit messy.  Irritated_User | 07/25/08
RE: Burn it, not explode it  ZergRush | 07/22/08
LOL when all else fails use Thermite  Species8472 | 07/22/08
Depends on who wants to read it ...  terry flores | 07/22/08
I just reuse them.  Species8472 | 07/22/08
Destroying a drive under warranty...  garmon@... | 07/23/08
RE: Verity manual hard drive destroyer (Gallery: How to destroy your hard drive)  mark16_15@... | 07/23/08
Give me an arc welder!  pyrdek | 07/23/08
Good one!  Dr_Zinj | 07/28/08
RE: Verity manual hard drive destroyer (Gallery: How to destroy your hard drive)  emma_frost | 07/23/08
RE: Verity manual hard drive destroyer (Gallery: How to destroy your hard drive)  regis@... | 07/23/08
RE: Verity manual hard drive destroyer (Gallery: How to destroy your hard drive)  captchas2@... | 07/24/08
RE: Verity manual hard drive destroyer (Gallery: How to destroy your hard drive)  bripau | 07/24/08
Answer to your question  Don Blackburn | 08/03/08
RE: Verity manual hard drive destroyer (Gallery: How to destroy your hard drive)  bripau | 07/24/08
RE: Verity manual hard drive destroyer (Gallery: How to destroy your hard d  glaga | 09/10/09

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