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Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day agoYou can put safety checks on the cabinet
Temperature sensors, sensors on cabinet drawers/doors etc
And do a system wipe if that happens
Those kinds of systems are used in a ton of other places already. Cars for example
stoy@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Absolutely, I was just thinking about how to do it cheap and simple.
There was an old Defcon talk about something similar, how to make a system to physically destroy hard drives using a mechanism inside a server that could be triggered automatically or remotely.
They tried a bunch of things from thermite to acids, but didn’t get anywhere really.
It made me think however…
What about injecting sand into the drives and actuating the read/write head?
I have seen photos of a hard drive crash, where the head grinded off all of the magnetic layer from the platters.
My idea was to inject sand as a grinding agent and use the read/write head as a grinder to do the same thing.
Then I realized that if you are a huge customer, you can probably have custom hard drives on order, these drives could have a dedicated physical grinding arm, designed so that once deployed it would quickly grind the magnetic layer off of the platters.
Now SSD have made these concepts mostly redundant, but still a fun thought experiment.
SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 21 hours ago
None of that is necessary these days; all you need is to scrub the encryption keya from RAM and cache.
The issue is reliably detecting tampering without undue false alarms.
grue@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Just encrypt the drive and store the key somewhere easier to destroy.