This SSD Will Self-Destruct When Needed

[lp231]

Cool, but kind of useless if someone actually took the SSD and you have no access to the physical buttons.
Would be cool if you can remotely destroy it.

 

[Guest]

LOL.

After smoke comes from the drive.. "I don't think that will work again.."

 

[Guest]

Will it come with a pin like a grenade -- I can see an installer hitting the button on accident very easily --
I can hear the cursing to come...

 

[Tab54o]

The info is protected but its also gone so now even thought the "enemy" doesn't have it neither do you and if its backed up well then its no longer protected.

 

[Tab54o]

THis clip is from the movie "the lady with the dragon face"

 

[Shin-san]

It's tempting to say "Or you can buy a hybrid SSD and lose the DRM authentication that it comes with"

 

[A Bad Day]

[citation][nom]razor512[/nom]I have a better solution for secure data destruction, Why not mix some thermite and place it in a small container above the SSD or HDDthen install an extra switch onto your case, then wire it from the power supply, through the thermite and too the switch.then if you need to physically destroy the drive, you simply hit a button and the drive will be melted in about 2-3 secondsit will be very similarly to that drive in the video, but cheaper and compatible with any drive.thermite is cheap and easy to make (sometimes even free)or if you are lazy, you can wire up a shotgun shell to the drive (though that is less safe compared to making thermite which has such a high ignition temperature that it ignite by it's self, even if you stick the entire unit in a oven. (you can even wrap it in paper then pour some gas and set it on fire and it wont start the exothermic reaction)[/citation]

Isn't it cheaper to add in an extra chip that would unleash +12V of rape onto the NAND?

 

[Guest]

A SSD drive that destroys its self, ya i'll stick to my normal SSD drive.

 

[belardo]

A - How do you press the button if someone steals your drive/computer or if the FEDs are in your home?

B - Why do I get the feeling that pedophiles are looking at this and saying "yep... worth it".

C - Now we know why the FEDs busts through the door with automatic weapons. You'd be on the ground before you can that.... WTF???!!

D - Imagine the FUN of being drunk and you drunk-kill your drive!

 

[phych]

I was hoping that, when she pressed the red button, the front would blow out like an M18 Claymore.

 

[banaanc]

nice for keeping pirated stuff, at least if you live somewhere where somebody cares about that

 

[WyomingKnott]

According to the company, the second method allows the user to overwrite the entire disk with meaningless code. This overwrite-deletion method ensures that there is no way to potentially recover previous data stored to the device, effectively setting the SSD back to factory default.

Is this gibberish, or am I confused about the function of the Secure Erase SATA command, which the NIST considers to be the best method for wiping a drive? http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-88/NISTSP800-88_rev1.pdf . Secure erase qualifies as a "purge," while overwrite qualifies as a "clear."

Clearing information is a level of media sanitization that would protect the confidentiality of information against a robust keyboard attack.

Purging information is a media sanitization process that protects the confidentiality of information against a laboratory attack. For some media, clearing media would not suffice for purging.

 

[mamailo]

Drug cartels now have a official SSD and will buy it by truckloads.
Nevermind; they can afford it.