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- JCSaint, on 10/12/2007, -7/+77Or you could blend it?....
Sorry, honestly I am. I just had to say it... - Tiak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+70Or you could just use a microwave, at very least it's the coolest looking way to do it.
- thenativeraver, on 10/12/2007, -1/+68Why not toss it in your microwave?
- screensnot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+64Every CD/DVD I ever bought, came with a hole pre-installed.
Bookmarked the page just in case I get some with no hole someday. - zephc, on 10/12/2007, -2/+65No, the goggles, they do nothing.
- aristoworks, on 10/12/2007, -3/+56Act NOW and we'll throw in a free hammer for those pesky cassettes and VHS tapes.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+52can it do 50 DVDs at once? Those SWAT guys aren't very patient.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+50Thermite it ALWAYS your best option.
- iseebluuue, on 10/12/2007, -0/+45whenever i need a CD/DVD destroyed, i just let someone borrow it
- bonyicecream, on 10/12/2007, -2/+46Break it in half, dip it in glue or paint, call it modern art. Sue them for slander and/or destroying your artwork if they try to bring it up in court against you.
(slander because they're saying your art sucks...and that you're someone that would pirate stuff) - PhoneGuy, on 10/12/2007, -5/+43Or ...
you could move to Canada, where living in a free country doesn't mean that your laws are written by corporations who have slipped their hands up your politicians a$$e$ and are working them like socket puppets.
RIAA and the MPAA can kiss my beaver. - SirNoobius, on 10/12/2007, -3/+35http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=48561&C=Newsletter&U=07P02-3&T=12210067
the place you buy it I had to go through 5 blogs to get to it. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2950? Hell, can it handle 10,000? Those feds don't go after you small timers.
- Drunkenfool, on 10/12/2007, -2/+30I think I could live with destroying a microwave by tossing in 50 dvd's, rather than getting rolled up by SWAT, and getting fined heavily and or jail time.
- nonperson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+24now thats a fine looking hammer right there, i tell you what.
- LAMinator, on 10/12/2007, -0/+24the hole puncher should punch custom shapes like hearts and stuff. or maybe bear shapes. i like gummy bears.
- maninblac1, on 10/12/2007, -8/+30Or, for free, take a razor blade and swipe it deep across the CD/DVD FAT table (the shiny silver circle at the middle of the disc).
Probably not the easiest since just breaking the disc is the easiest, sure easier than a whole puncher. No FAT, no files. - eatasandwich, on 10/12/2007, -2/+22You could always lend the disk to my mate Stanley - he's had my Hannibal DVD for years. Granted it wasn't pirated, but since I moved to a different country I bet I never see it again. Come to think of it, maybe a better solution for you would be to leave the country, don't worry about the Stanley part - especially when trying to dispose of the movie "Hannibal". You'll have to just hurl that one across the room - which, now that I mention it, is what I did with it.
- macbookpromat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20Man I always want to stick a spindle of a 100 cd's in a microwave.
- lolwtfhaha, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20A lot of CDs will shatter into a bazillion eye-piercing pieces if you bend them in half. It could make for a good distraction as you make your getaway.
- usbserial, on 10/12/2007, -2/+20Worst... blog-spam... ever.
Also, this seems like a terribly inefficient way of destroying cds/dvds. - adidos, on 10/12/2007, -4/+19If by 5 you met 2, then sure :)
- mga911, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15I was about to ask, "What's wrong with just snapping a CD in half." But I decided to try it first. Turns out that it sends shiny shards of plastic flying everywhere. I'm glad I didn't get one in my eye.
I still wouldn't buy the CD Punch. I'd probably buy goggles first. - panique, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17Unless you completely destroy the disc, data can still be read off of it. Perhaps not with a consumer CD or DVD drive, but with relatively inexpensive equipment, I'd guess costing under $20K. I'll bet if a disc still spins, you can read much of the data using a regular drive with some specially hacked firmware.
Me, I picked up a commercial-grade shredder from Costco with disc shredding capability. I believe at that point, it is practically impossible (but not totally impossible) to read the data. - streak, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15Office shredders often have a CD/DVD slot. They're inexpensive, fast and /very/ effective.
- titlesaysitall, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15Call within the next 30 minutes and we will include and iron clad shoe for Betamax!
- HotGore, on 10/12/2007, -8/+20If all else fails I guess you could try hiding it in your rectum.
- coheedcollapse, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Just put a cup of water in there so it doesn't overload. The chance for damage will be minimal if you wait just until the CD's burn through.
- gfixler, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Staples had a sale recently on their MailMate cross-cut shredder. I picked that up. The slot is only wide enough for letters, CDs, and DVDs, but does all of those, including thick, credit card offering junk, completely, and effortlessly. Paper you can put in 10 sheets at a time, folded in half.
For more security, consider learning how to use the free, open source TrueCrypt (it's easy) to make strongly encrypted, password protected volumes, which you can burn to CDs, and DVDs if you wish. You can even create plausibly deniable secret volumes inside the volumes that are undetectable by any known means, and TC volumes themselves can't be distinguished from gibberish. You can also create a volume of an entire partition. You have a selection of enc types, but the default, AES, supposedly hasn't been cracked by anyone ever (true?), and is used by the military. That's more than enough for my personal stuff. I use it on my 2GB Cruzer Mini USB thumb drive, so I won't worry about losing it, and my personal stuff. The same volume works on Linux (Ubuntu, home), and Windows (XP, work).
Also consider Eraser, a free, open source Windows utility that integrates with the OS, and lets you securely copy, move, and delete files with right-click menu options. Its 35-pass Guttman deletion is supposed to be completely unrecoverable. Of course, you can't use this on CD-R/DVD-R.
MailMate: http://tinyurl.com/yvpdld (Links to a messy Staples page)
TrueCrypt: http://www.truecrypt.org/
Eraser: http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/ (read the features page) - dingmah, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13I can see this is only being useful for weaklings who can't snap a disc.....
- ultrahombre, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14Perfect for all those AOL discs.
- merreborn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10"I'll bet if a disc still spins, you can read much of the data"
It doesn't even have to spin. Forensic data recovery basically involves examining surfaces of storage media with a microscope. as long as there's undamaged surface, theoretically, there's still data to be had.
Fire's a pretty good option. Throwing your CDs in a pan on the stove would probably work, and ruining a pan is probably worth it if you're that desperate. I wonder if there's some sort of cheap, easily available acid that'd dissolve CDs... - Rivetgeek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Pfft, just encrypt an entire 300 gig drive with truecrypt and use AES + two fish. Then mount the encrypted drive as a share. RIAA comes knocking, flip the power switch and it drops the share, re-encrypting the data. Seeing as how the ***** NSA can't crack 128bit AES, much less AES plus twofish, yer pretty damned safe.
Just make sure you either disable "recent documents" or name the file something innocuous - VSKBadCRC, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12Just pop those bad boys in the microwave, quicker, and certainly more entertaining than that thing is.
- ghostlywind, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9I could see someone punch holes in it to put into a three ring binder.
- maninblac1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9It's a good idea, it's fun, it even makes a good light show. Some people just aren't so keen on the very small probability their microwave breaks.
- MasterChi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Ok, um just incase you guys don't know its almost standard procedure for most SWAT teams to cut telephone and power at the same time they rush in to prevent you from calling backup and other such problems for them so you'll hear your door fall to the floor and you'll throw everything in microwave and then......nothing. I think it was mentioned below but a constant burning fire would be best especially if you did enough trouble for SWAT to come after you or maybe your microwave on a HUGE UPS.
- panique, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8You must have worked tech support once upon a time.
- raptordrew, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11"you" small timers, eh? so you're a big one? I'm telling! ;-P
- FurtThePirate, on 10/12/2007, -5/+12No you used it at the right time,
dugg up - idonthack, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7The shinies! Get the shinies!
- elpepe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I always keep a crackling fire going in my fireplace year-round for exactly this situation.
- rhesuspieces00, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7ammonia will dissolve polycarbonate, though its not a rapid process.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9I also keep a hammer next to my hard drives...
- maninblac1, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9If you can force your drive to read the disc that might work, most drives will fail the disc after failing to load the FAT. Undelete won't help you there, and the site doesn't specifically state recovery from CD is supported.
No soup for you! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Cd Punch. Judo CHOP!
- nlight, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Our company manufactures computer magazine CDs and there is always a bunch (100-200 a month) left that we have to destroy after. I've seen workers drop them in a bucket of (what I believe is) acetone and methanol. It does the trick quite well.
- brianbennett, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I ...guess... this could be considered useful if you don't have a microwave... or hands.
- aliengoods, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5@phoneguy
I'm guessing beaver has a significantly different meaning in Canada than in the US.
What's that aboot? Eh? - MOBOB, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6a piece of duct tape will tear the reflective surface off the top, i think there was an article about that on digg a while back.
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