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DEF CON 23 - Zoz - And That's How I Lost My Other Eye...Explorations in Data Destruction (Fixed)

DEFCONConference · 532.9K views · 2015-08-21 · 53:09

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Overview

Zoz's DEF CON 23 talk explores practical, often explosive ways to destroy data and hard drives quickly. It tests methods such as thermite and other physical techniques for rapid destruction.

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HN points to it whenever hard drive destruction or fast physical data wiping comes up, as an empirical test of what actually works.

Recommended by 2 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2016–2022

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dwyerm · 2020-01 · Strong recommendation

Highly recommended by me, too: Zoz at DefCon 23, entitled "And That's How I Lost My Other Eye...Explorations in Data Destruction" [VIDEO]

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open_bear · 2016-08 · Recommendation

Take a look at this talk from DEF CON 23 on what it takes to safely destroy HDDs (spoiler: even explosions don't quite cut it): [VIDEO]

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pvillano · 2022-05 · Reference

there was a defcon talk where they tested multiple methods for rapid hard drive erasure, in the event of a raid on a data center. a bomb range they visited happened to have a few of these leftover and [VIDEO]

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