Timeline for Emergency method to erase all data off a machine within seconds
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| Jul 25, 2020 at 13:40 | comment | added | wizzwizz4 | @Nullman If those aren't quick enough, ClF₃'s got to be enough to do the job. “Chlorine trifluoride and gases like it have been reported to ignite sand,” | |
| Jul 24, 2020 at 16:01 | comment | added | Criticizing Israel not allowed | Realistically, won't the card will just bounce around inside the blender and make break into 2-3 pieces, since it's too small to actually blend? | |
| Jul 23, 2020 at 18:03 | comment | added | john doe | Chew it up and swallow it. | |
| Jul 23, 2020 at 14:27 | comment | added | user238815 | The plates are extremely non-reactive. This has been shown in the defcon 19 talk. | |
| Jul 23, 2020 at 11:05 | comment | added | Nullman | Hydrofluoric acid (or maybe Aqua Regia) would probably work for dissolving the card | |
| Jul 23, 2020 at 10:16 | comment | added | Josiah | @Nobody, it does depend on what scale you count as "dust". The WHO says that "dust" can be up to 100 micrometers wide, but let's be generous and call it about 10. An sd card is about 10mm wide, so there's about 1000 "dust" particles along and about 1000 up. If the card is 1TB, each of these dust particles has space for about a megabyte of data. Obviously you wouldn't get a tiny pair of tweezers and put it together, but if you've got proper forensic kit to read those fragments, you may well be able to redo some of the data "jigsaw" computationally. | |
| Jul 23, 2020 at 10:00 | comment | added | Nobody | But I think burning is more realistic. Put it into a box with a couple of firecrackers, something like that (be aware that putting explosives into a somewhat strong shell is basically like making a grenade, i.e. it will kill you if you do it wrongly). | |
| Jul 23, 2020 at 9:58 | comment | added | Nobody | @Josiah You are joking, right? I don't know if a blender is actually capable of shredding a microSD to dust, but if the actual chip inside the card is shredded to dust (of a particle size like you would expect from a good blender), there is no way in hell that is going to be reassembled. | |
| Jul 23, 2020 at 5:32 | comment | added | Josiah | It's a good point just how detailed and delicate modern storage can be, but I'm not actually convinced this meets the criteria. Even if the blender successfully shreds the card, the sort of adversary who can feasibly break modern crypto may actually be able to solve an SD card dust jigsaw! | |
| Jul 23, 2020 at 5:25 | comment | added | Nathan Goings | I'd like to point out, because I was curious, that there exists a 1 TB MicroSD card from a reputable vendor available from several reputable vendors. | |
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| Jul 23, 2020 at 1:00 | history | answered | H. Daun | CC BY-SA 4.0 |