Finally, there are some SSD drives available at a reasonable price from Kingston.
I’ll finally be able to set up a reasonable crypto book with an easily destructable boot drive. Just need to perfect the destruction but it shouldn’t be too hard. 40Gb isn’t much but enough for a communications system and a work platform for keeping your plans and your real financial records on until the big drives become affordable.
Just what every criminal, terrorist and patriot needs in this country.
Lord T,
They say great minds think alike
Those were my thoughts exactly when I read the Register report.
I think a 14 lb sledge and a large anvil might meet the destruction requirements.
Ivan,
A sledge is fine when you are not stuck in a corner with 25 MP5′s pointed at you. You want something else and I’ve had some good results with primers on USB media. HDAs are just too hard to destroy without the application of force.
If I can find a way that doesn’t contravene our H&S and explosives laws then I thin I’ll market what I have already on USB sticks followed by the SSD drives.
Ah! I hadn’t thought of it that way, I need to be more paranoid in my thinking but then I no longer live in England.
Many years ago I had a liquid that would dissolve various epoxy resins, Used it to get at circuits that manufactures turned into solid blocks with a few contacts exposed that cost the earth to replace when usually all the problem was a dry joint. If you weren’t careful it would dissolve ICs and transistors. Maybe something like that would do the job.
Ivan,
What is the chemical? It must be worth a try. I have used a touch of acid to do it. The only problem is triggering it. All the acids I tried, and I would guess your liquid, doesn’t want to flow and it sticks to the container when it should be eating away the resin or flows the wrong way. If you up the dose it then may leak and cause other issues. Chemicals also deteriorate with time and storage conditions with hot places,like inside computers, always being a bad storage place.
There are a few solutions which work most of the time but I bet most would be illegal to sell to the public.
Careful with that acid, Lord T.
I sure am. I like my eyes and all of my body parts.
Sorry Lord T, I can’t remember the name – I last used it in the 60s. At the time it was sold as a de-potting compound. It was a light blue liquid about the consistency of water – I assume the colour was for identification. One other thing, if I’m remembering correctly, there was little or no smell.
We used it on potted blocks about 2 inches square and an inch thick. Suspend said block in a jar of it for just over half an hour then get out a small paint brush to clean up the little bits. The time was found by experiment – any longer and it would start on the epoxy-glass circuit boards. I think we got it from our electronics parts supplier.
OK. Fair enough. I’ll have a look around it can’t be all that difficult to find out what it is. When I was an apprentice I worked for an electronics firm and I seem to remember they used lots of things in circuit prep. I’ll try Maplin first.