<!--QuoteBegin-Talesin+Feb 13 2005, 04:35 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Talesin @ Feb 13 2005, 04:35 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Iron oxide + Powdered Aluminum = Homebrew Thermite. Not the real stuff, but still pretty effective at melting a hold through some jack***'s engine.
Careful with the ratios, and you'll have to find something that burns a LOT hotter than a blowtorch to light it. Like magnesium. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> Angst-filled teenage basement 'chemists' who get their 'knowhow' from the Anarchist's Cookbook pretend to make Thermite.
Real men <a href='http://www.unitednuclear.com/accel1.jpg' target='_blank'>build their own particle accelerators.</a>
<!--QuoteBegin-Poofle+Feb 14 2005, 06:35 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Poofle @ Feb 14 2005, 06:35 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Throw it in the trash. Ultimately destroying the drive will be a lot of work and unless you persue more illegal ways of destruction, probably not as much fun as you anticipated. Plus, your dad will never find out, no one will get ahold of the data, and there's probably nothing on it worth looking for anyway.
Besides, there's companies that can recover 95% of the data on hard drives that were melted in a FIRE. Now that takes skillz. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> fire is hardly the best way to distroy a harddrive though... Just give her a few strokes with a strong magnet, if there is even any data left it will just be a whole lot of staight ones.
<!--QuoteBegin-Swiftspear+Feb 14 2005, 06:46 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Swiftspear @ Feb 14 2005, 06:46 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin-Poofle+Feb 14 2005, 06:35 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Poofle @ Feb 14 2005, 06:35 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Throw it in the trash. Ultimately destroying the drive will be a lot of work and unless you persue more illegal ways of destruction, probably not as much fun as you anticipated. Plus, your dad will never find out, no one will get ahold of the data, and there's probably nothing on it worth looking for anyway.
Besides, there's companies that can recover 95% of the data on hard drives that were melted in a FIRE. Now that takes skillz. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> fire is hardly the best way to distroy a harddrive though... Just give her a few strokes with a strong magnet, if there is even any data left it will just be a whole lot of staight ones. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> Unless it's a particularly powerful magnet, that won't do much. I've dropped pretty hefty magnets onto floppy disks before and they've done nothing.
A real data wipe involves clearing the drive and writing over it with all zeros about 10 times. Unfortunately the drive doesn't WORK so that's not doable <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
<!--QuoteBegin-Poofle+Feb 14 2005, 06:47 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Poofle @ Feb 14 2005, 06:47 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin-Swiftspear+Feb 14 2005, 06:46 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Swiftspear @ Feb 14 2005, 06:46 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin-Poofle+Feb 14 2005, 06:35 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Poofle @ Feb 14 2005, 06:35 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Throw it in the trash. Ultimately destroying the drive will be a lot of work and unless you persue more illegal ways of destruction, probably not as much fun as you anticipated. Plus, your dad will never find out, no one will get ahold of the data, and there's probably nothing on it worth looking for anyway.
Besides, there's companies that can recover 95% of the data on hard drives that were melted in a FIRE. Now that takes skillz. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> fire is hardly the best way to distroy a harddrive though... Just give her a few strokes with a strong magnet, if there is even any data left it will just be a whole lot of staight ones. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> Unless it's a particularly powerful magnet, that won't do much. I've dropped pretty hefty magnets onto floppy disks before and they've done nothing.
A real data wipe involves clearing the drive and writing over it with all zeros about 10 times. Unfortunately the drive doesn't WORK so that's not doable <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> drives are written with magnets... there is no other way to do it... A good exposure of the actual metal of the drive disks to your average speaker magnet will garble any data on them beyond reconition, and quite probably damage the drive beyond the point where it can be used in any conventional computer anyways. No if's and's or but's about it.
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Careful with the ratios, and you'll have to find something that burns a LOT hotter than a blowtorch to light it. Like magnesium. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Angst-filled teenage basement 'chemists' who get their 'knowhow' from the Anarchist's Cookbook pretend to make Thermite.
Real men <a href='http://www.unitednuclear.com/accel1.jpg' target='_blank'>build their own particle accelerators.</a>
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Just a <b>MINOR</b> peeve of mine.
Besides, there's companies that can recover 95% of the data on hard drives that were melted in a FIRE. Now that takes skillz. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
fire is hardly the best way to distroy a harddrive though... Just give her a few strokes with a strong magnet, if there is even any data left it will just be a whole lot of staight ones.
Besides, there's companies that can recover 95% of the data on hard drives that were melted in a FIRE. Now that takes skillz. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
fire is hardly the best way to distroy a harddrive though... Just give her a few strokes with a strong magnet, if there is even any data left it will just be a whole lot of staight ones. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Unless it's a particularly powerful magnet, that won't do much. I've dropped pretty hefty magnets onto floppy disks before and they've done nothing.
A real data wipe involves clearing the drive and writing over it with all zeros about 10 times. Unfortunately the drive doesn't WORK so that's not doable <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Besides, there's companies that can recover 95% of the data on hard drives that were melted in a FIRE. Now that takes skillz. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
fire is hardly the best way to distroy a harddrive though... Just give her a few strokes with a strong magnet, if there is even any data left it will just be a whole lot of staight ones. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Unless it's a particularly powerful magnet, that won't do much. I've dropped pretty hefty magnets onto floppy disks before and they've done nothing.
A real data wipe involves clearing the drive and writing over it with all zeros about 10 times. Unfortunately the drive doesn't WORK so that's not doable <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
drives are written with magnets... there is no other way to do it... A good exposure of the actual metal of the drive disks to your average speaker magnet will garble any data on them beyond reconition, and quite probably damage the drive beyond the point where it can be used in any conventional computer anyways. No if's and's or but's about it.