Comments on: science continues to ruin everything http://www.manifestdensity.net/2012/07/22/science-continues-to-ruin-everything/ Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:05:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Municipalhttp://www.manifestdensity.net/2012/07/22/science-continues-to-ruin-everything/comment-page-1/#comment-378911 Municipal Wed, 24 Oct 2012 23:42:13 +0000 http://www.manifestdensity.net/?p=2145#comment-378911 Actually, in the Breaking Bad scenario, the likelihood of success comes not from the magnetic flux density, but from the physcial impact. I have found that the quickest way to sanitize a reasonably modern hard drive is to hurl it against a concrete sidewalk, which tends to shatter the drive platters into a many little shards, like broken glass. If the screen was broken as the officer doing inventory said, the impact may have been sufficient to shatter the platters.

I’m sure that two reasonably able-bodied men, with adrenaline coursing through their veins could have put the truck back on its tires and drove away, but hey…

]]> By: Skrohttp://www.manifestdensity.net/2012/07/22/science-continues-to-ruin-everything/comment-page-1/#comment-370598 Skro Tue, 09 Oct 2012 22:57:11 +0000 http://www.manifestdensity.net/?p=2145#comment-370598 Explosives might do a better job, but it’s not exactly discrete in the same way as an electromagnet would be.

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