[ale] Sanitizing dead hard drive

Thompson Freeman tfreeman at ike2.room17.com
Tue Aug 21 23:49:35 EDT 2007


That was what I understood, and would enjoy seeing - rail gun 
which uses a hard drive as the ammo.

On 08/21/2007 08:09:43 PM, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> 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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