[ale] Sanitizing dead hard drive

[James P. Kinney III]

That's just so low tech, Dan :) Satisfying, yes. But low tech. I could
just bash it on a rock if I wanted low tech.

Maybe if the railgun slug WAS a hard drive...

On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 19:30 -0400, Dan Lambert wrote:
> John M. Browning designed something very similar back early in the last
> century.
> 
> It was so brilliant, and so reliable that the U. S. government bought
> into it.
> 
> They are generally referred to now by the model number M1911A1.
> 
> Most of us know them as the Colt .45 ACP.
> 
> Works like a charm.
> 
> Dan
> 
> On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 19:12 -0400, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> > Add me to the list of ALE willing to part with cash on this.
> > 
> > Maybe a rail gun that shoots a slug to crush/penetrate/destroy a 3.5"
> > drive.
> > 
> > Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! A multi-rail rail gun that shoots rapid fire small slugs.
> > 
> > Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! Add an automatic loader and a rapid
> > recharger and make it portable!
> > 
> > Now I'm just fantasizing. Sheesh.
> > 
> > On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 17:14 -0400, Thompson Freeman wrote:
> > > Not to drive a dead hard drive through the heart of an  
> > > immortal thread - or nothing like that... 8-)
> > > 
> > > If you/somebody can figure out how and _where_ to build  
> > > such a thing - I would _love_ to see such in operation! I  
> > > might even be persuaded to part with some cash in such a  
> > > case.
> > > 
> > > (I must be feeling destructively immature today)
> > > 
> > > On 08/21/2007 04:38:12 PM, Josh Freeman wrote:
> > > > I think ALE needs to build a hard drive rail gun for just
> > > > such an
> > > > emergency. I'm sure that  the combination of magnetic
> > > > field and
> > > > extremely high-G impact would do it.
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > On 8/20/07, Preston Boyington <preston.lists at gmail.com>
> > > > wrote:
> > > > > David Tomaschik wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Sounds like something of a conspiracy theorist.  I'm
> > > > not completely
> > > > > > convinced of much of it, but that's just me.  Of
> > > > course, I don't have
> > > > > > anything to hide, so perhaps I'm less worried (though
> > > > I know I should
> > > > > > still care).
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > hmmm... people with nothing to hide make me suspicious.
> > > > ;)
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