A typical home desktop computer or laptop hard drive ... there is really only one way to securely erase the information on the hard drive: destroying the magnetic disk (also called a platter ...

One of our recent posts took an interesting tangent: physical hard drive destruction. First, [wolf] wanted to use a 20ga shotgun shell on his hard drive. [brk] suggests an electromagnet applied to ...

[Wolf] emailed us to show us his Self destructing Hard Drive tutorial. He’s using thermite, like we did, but he’s put a little more effort into the delivery system. In the video, you can see a ...