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

DEFCONConference · talk · Watch on YouTube

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What it is

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.

Why Hacker News recommends it

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

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2016, last 2022

What HN commenters said

  1. “Highly recommended by me, too”

    Zoz's talk on data destruction explorations.

    dwyerm, 2020-01 · Strong recommendation · in “BusKill: A kill cord for your laptop”

  2. “Take a look at this talk from DEF CON 23 on what it takes to safely destroy HDDs”

    What it takes to safely destroy hard drives, even with explosions.

    open_bear, 2016-08 · Recommendation · in “WhatsApp is going to share your phone number with Facebook”

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Topics: defcon, thermite, hard drives, security, physical destruction

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