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Londonsers may have heard of Freecycle - basically an online servie - kinda like loot, but you dont charge for it.
Problem is - no-one wants CRT monitors these days - so my mate who had 2 17" monitors to dispose of found that, well let me paste his email he sent out about it..... "2 x 17" monitors. Impossible to give away on Freecycle or elsewhere. Left on the pavement, gone in 20 minutes." So Chavcycle them. And as for Hard Disks - keep em all forever and when they break - 12lb Sledghammer. Or screwdiver - take the platters out - make even better coasters than CD's - or because of the metal they are made of, make good mirrored wind-chimes - ![]() David
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A few years ago I was working for a company that was being paid to investigate the possible affect of TEMPEST attacks (the art of viewing a CRT, from miles away). So long as you have a 'clean room' and the right hardware (which can actually be purchased from B&Q), it's actually pretty trivial to get data from an old hard drive. For those paranoid enough, your local breakers yard should be sufficient. They have a nice way of picking cars up (electro-magnet) and dropping them in a crusher. Minimal effort, all data erased beyond the "7 wipes" principal, quite a lot of the shadowing goes as well, and should anyone really want the data, they have to make the discs flat again so they balance in a rotating vacuum. But then, if you need to resort to this kind of tactic, I'd be expecting a knock on the door in the next few mins. (I do know a guy that has a nice setup. He's designed & built what is esentially a microwave in the doorframe. If you don't open the door & press the right button (hidden obviously), the microwave comes on. It's not enough to cook you, but it is enough to generate a small EMP.) |
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Baph,
You sound like the sort of guy I bumped into on a Sybase course many years back. At the beginning of the first day, the instructor sent a list round asking everyone to write their name down, the name of their company, and their email address. These 2 guys (who always seemed to disappear at break time) just wrote "Government" for their company name. The instructor noticed this and said "What government department - can you be a bit more specific?" (just wondering I guess). They said "No, just the government." It was rather funny really. I bet those two would have got data back from this drive once they've finished their daily Sudoku! ![]() |
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My job now is nowhere near the security level I've had in the past, but even now, my manager has left the armed services after being involved in communications (as he puts it 'behind the enemy lines'), and isn't able to name the specific section of the forces he was in. All I know, is that he was mainly developing photographs in tents, in the pitch black, and that he trained as a sparky. Anyway, this is starting to get de-railed lol. |
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