There's nothing quite like sitting by an open flame and watching the evidence burn.
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There's nothing quite like sitting by an open flame and watching the evidence burn.
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Softwarewolfreplied to CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :blobcatrainbow: last edited by
@catsalad I would have microwaved the evidence, personally.
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@faoluin @catsalad I did the research
An Economical Method for Securely Disintegrating Solid-State Drives Using Blenders
Pulverizing solid-state drives (SSDs) down to particles no larger than 2 mm is required by the United States National Security Agency (NSA) to ensure the highest level of data security, but commercial disintegrators that achieve this standard are large, heavy, costly, and often difficult to access globally. Here, we present a portable, inexpensive, and accessible method of pulverizing SSDs using a household blender and other readily available materials. We verify this approach by pulverizing SSDs with a variety of household blenders for fixed periods of time and sieve the resulting powder to ensure appropriate particle size. Among the 6 household blenders tested, sharp-blade blenders with high peak power (1,380 W) and high blade speed (28,000 RPM) properly disintegrate 2.5-inch SSDs in less than 20 min. This method is useful for pulverizing small numbers of SSDs that contain secret information when on-site conventional disintegrators are not available or practical.
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@kevinriggle @faoluin @catsalad the military standard says you're supposed to pulverize the drive to dust finer than the size of an individual transistor
we're aware of no extant or plausible technology which could reconstruct data from, like, excessively coarse dust, but that is what the standard says
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@ireneista @kevinriggle @faoluin @catsalad I mean theoretically you could 3D scan each piece of dust with SEM, also do magnetic imaging, then throw a giant amount of compute at search for matching edges (might not even be that bad with some sort of hash) to do a virtual reassembly. Sounds like an engineering/implementation/cost problem not a lack of technology.
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@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] imagine doing all of this to uncover a fucking troll face on the harddrive
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@puppygirlhornypost2 @catsalad @faoluin @kevinriggle @ireneista What our fantasized version of Luigi would have left.
