Self Destruct Sequence for thinkpads?

As awesome as thinkpads are with their Rescue and Recovery, I'd also like to have the exact opposite of that. Let's say you are in the middle of an intense h4X0r operation on your thinkpad and suddenly your location is disclosed by a hot foreign spy named natalia (who you totally got it on with earlier). The enemy is closing in on you and you need to wipe your thinkpad clean with the push of a button! So you quickly shut down your h4X and you run the program:

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Thanks.

 

You are in the middle of an intense h4X0r operation on your thinkpad and suddenly your location is disclosed by a hot foreign spy named natalia (who you totally got it on with earlier). The enemy is closing in on you and you need to wipe your thinkpad clean with the push of a button! So you quickly shut down your h4X (you know, from your intense h4X0r operation) and you run the program Darik's Boot And Nuke. It takes a while but your hard drive is erased and unrecoverable thirty-five times over.

Conversely, you could put your Thinkpad on the floor and stomp on the keyboard thirty-five times.

 

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Excellent!

Thanks :-D

 

Put it in the microwave and cook for 5mins.

Let it cool for 2 mins before serving.

 

If you are concerned about that kind of thing, I suggest one of two options:

Truecrypt - software based full disk encryption, extremely effective with only a minor performance impact. Far better and more flexible than Bitlocker or self encrypting drives (I belive they both have government backdoors).

Dariks Boot and Nuke - completely wipe a hard drive with structured random passes (time consuming but renders data completely unrecoverable [even by professionals]).

Both are free and extremely effective.

If that is inadequate, I suggest taking the drive out, bashing it into pieces with a sledgehammer, welding the pieces back together, rinse and repeat.

 

Hahah, I like this thread <.<

 

Drop your ThinkPad into a volcano or a vat of sulfuric acid.

 

Ah, note that DBAN will wipe everything on your hard drive... including your Recovery Partition.

 

For every situation like yours, there's at least a 100 rubes who post here "I HIT THE SELF-DESTRUCT SEQUENCE, WHAT DO I DO?" That may be a low guesstimate.

 

Hi.

Never defrag your hdd, so the data is spread across as many sides and platters as possible.

And keep a sledgehammer handy!

John.

 

give it to "will it blend?"

 

Take a high-powered magnet to the hard drive, then put it in a pot of boiling water, then throw it all at Natalia's face. Set off a flashbang and sneak out the back door.

I've been playing video games too much.

 

Just throw the whole laptop into the bathtub.

 

By the way, do you have pictures of Natalia?

 

I guess you could make your battery explode. Li-ion batteries make good explosive fireworks.

Putting it out with water makes it even worst.

 

get some c4 the size of ultrabay complete with dvd faceplate, rig the detonator to a SATA II connector. when the time comes , switch the dvd drive with your bomb, switch it on or leave that to natalie and run like hell. oh dont forgot to take the bluray drive with u, saves 200$ for the queens treasury

or cut into pieces and feed it to the pigs

 

I did, but of course she encoded them with their own self destruct sequence which was triggered by my attempts to post them to imageshack and claim my bragging rights.

Needless to say she had an accent, and was very, very, hot.