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This reminds me of some equipment in the military such as secure radios that contain sensitive data that must be destroyed in the event of capture. They have a sticker that says “shoot here” on the part of the radio that, I presume, is where the component that stores sensitive data is located.
At my first Help desk job we decommissioned hard drives by taking them to the range and shooting them with my boss’s aircraft gun converted into a rifle (he was a former Air Force plane mechanic and kept a decommissioned barrel)
My current job is lame since we just stick them in a degausser.
Your old boss combined team building activities with useful work brilliantly
He was a fantastic boss like 90% of the time. He’s the reason I went from a customer service rep to senior systems engineer in under 5 years.
He was a gun collector, not because he jerked off to the 2A, but because he thought guns were cool pieces of machinery, and shooting them was fun. He also had his own remote parcel of land with a proper backstop that was his gun range.
But, dude was bipolar 1, and his manic persona was a huge cunt. Luckily I only had to deal with it 3 times, and one of those times he instantly chilled out when I told him I had ADHD which caused the negative perception that I didn’t care (this is around the time I was last promoted too)
Too bad he pissed off the C-suite, or I’d be IT director there now.
I had thermite grenades for our radar when i was in Iraq. In the event of capture we were supposed to put a grenade on the computer parts, anything with cryptography, and the radar.
Thermite is much easier to destroy stuff than a bullet or 30.
The GRID Compass, arguably the first laptop, had a magnesium case. When three-letter agencies bought some for field use, they drew an X over the nonvolatile storage.
Apparently when the first aircraft with computerised autopilot came out, they included an emergency shutdown switch that would fire explosive bolts through the CPU. Not sure why they didn’t just cut the power; perhaps a senior executive who didn’t trust computers and didn’t care to learn about them pulled rank?
It was so that if the downed plane got captured by other forces, they would have less working parts to reverse engineer the function from, not because people were worried about rogue autopilots they couldn’t shut off.
When I was in school, a classmate had done a coop for the Canadian military. They used the ADA programming language (iirc), and it was such a safe language that the only unrecoverable exception they allowed in their programs (for a military helicopter) was one where the user had selected the self-destruction option and the exception was so that the program could switch from “flying the helicopter and running its systems” mode to “scramble the memory to minimize the useful data that might be recovered from it” mode.
Presumably trying to keep the microprocessor tech out of Soviet hands.
Just please make sure to clear back blast properly and also be wearing serious ear pro if you fire one of those off in a confined space, or you will deafen yourself.
I turned my expended at4 into a floor lamp.
I’m not sure this will really slow down the killer robots.
Our servers have a patch that doesn’t let you use that weapon.
Trust but verify
