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      Feels like it’s easier to just not have anything on your hard drive that’s worth that much effort. I can only think of one type of file that would justify that level of obfuscation in most of the world, and I actually fully support owners of those files turning their PCs over to the police unmolested, so to speak

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      23 hours ago

      Big magnets will only pull the arm off the plates and leave the data intact. Also why waste good hardware when all it needs is a couple of writes with all zeroes and ones?

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          tbh I completely forgot about the context of this post. Yeah shredding takes longer than getting a warrant from a corrupt judge

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      23 hours ago

      Mircrowave.

      Just take out anything LiON prior to nuking, and as much pure metal housing as you can.

      And also plan on getting a new microwave.

      And have a fire extinguisher on hand.