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.
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.
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.