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- DeskFlyer, on 01/28/2009, -3/+28Om nom nom...
- superc0w, on 01/27/2009, -1/+20After just getting laid off from an IT position this really made my day.
- borez, on 01/28/2009, -0/+17I wonder if there is a shredder for shredding used shredders?
- inactive, on 01/28/2009, -4/+17This was oddly hypnotizing. I could watch hard drive shredding for hours. How much this job pay?
- colonelxc, on 01/28/2009, -2/+12Wow, even though it's an ad, I can't bury it. It has hypnotized me.
- abrasion, on 01/28/2009, -3/+12I hate these videos, 'security' teams in most IT firms do nothing but cause people frustration, hassle and inconvienience.
These security people are the same ones that insist on destroying disks like this, rather than using software like killdisk in 3 passes over the disk.
Anyone with any REAL bloody IT knowledge would know that 3 passes of 0's over the surface and you'll never recover a shred of data from any modern hard disk, these things could be given to charity, they could be re-sold, frequently govt and large corporations also replace mid range equipment, not just low end (3 years old? destroy it and replace it!) Do you guys know what kind of hard disks were around in machines 3 years ago? Anything from 40 to 160gb drives, still perfectly usable for mom, pop, gran, sister, friends - uni students, nope SHRED EM!
It sickens me from a waste perspective, no matter how cool the device physically is.
EDIT: yes security is important, do it PROPERLY, understand what you're doing, why you're doing it, where your holes are, don't just blindly shred hardware.
Oh one last thing, let's assume a 160gb drive is being shredded, that's still worth 20 or 30$ to someone, yet YOUR government is PAYING someone instead 20$ a drive to do the shredding - what a filthy waste. - trice22, on 01/28/2009, -0/+6Apparently: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nROrmYOJCI
- 000dnj, on 01/28/2009, -1/+7Hang in there buddy. These are tough times.
- amitait, on 01/28/2009, -4/+10I bet that if you'll put the Crysis DVD, the shredder will crush.
Also, Windows Vista. - WibWobble, on 02/02/2009, -2/+7Why does everyone feel the need to bring politics into everything? ***** OFF.
- Joshuarr, on 01/28/2009, -0/+4All that porn! :(
- mrBitch, on 01/28/2009, -0/+4RE: " .. yes the girl from procurement was hot too, no pics"
Ok, how about some ASCII art, then? - ptheroux, on 01/28/2009, -1/+5My favorite was the part where it broke the stuff.
- abrasion, on 01/28/2009, -2/+6Sorry one more reply just because I'm SO SICK of jerks in the security team saying no 'just because they have the power to'
We had a user in a team which had taken work related photos on the work purchased digital camera.
The digital camera plug port for the cable was damaged so you couldn't get the data from the camera to the PC where the software was installed (by an admin too, no local admin for users, understandably)
Said user called the helpdesk and asked what can they do, the helpdesk suggested the user get a memory card reader. ,.... SO the user calls the procurement team and I sat next to this team.
So the girl from procurement asks the security guy if the user can buy a memory card reader, the security guy says "nope" and the girl on the phone says 'oh' and asks why, the security guy says 'security risk, no can do'
True story.
It's not like they couldn't buy one and plug it in anyhow, because it would have worked fine with our build.
The thing is the security guy due to lazyness, stupidity or power tripping decided 'no!' because he likes saying no - so the user has to spend 500$ of their departments money on purchasing another camera (guess who pays for that in a govt organisation? that's right you and me)
Sorry for the long winded story but as someone who has worked support for 12 years, these past 6 or 7 years of the 'security' team suddenly becoming the most important people in the office (often having done security courses but with little REAL IT knowledge) ...... well they piss me off frankly,.. they piss me off.
And yes, this was the guy who would pay for us to shred perfectly good hard disks too, sigh.
P.S yes the girl from procurement was hot too, no pics :( - oboshoe, on 01/28/2009, -1/+4There is just something cool about watching shredding machines.
If I had one of these, I would be digging through my garage, looking for stuff to jam in there. Just because its cool to watch.
I can hear my wife - "Honey...have you seen the stapler or my frying pan....and what are you doing out there?"
me: "ummm....no...ummm nuttin honey" - inactive, on 01/28/2009, -1/+4I have an odd feeling of satisfaction watching that...
Can anyone make it a screensaver? - jenshik, on 01/28/2009, -0/+3The data security you deserve - no data at all!
Also, there was a vid of one of these shredders on the front page yesterday. - abrasion, on 01/28/2009, -0/+3We had a guy who was an 'asset manager' who had no idea what hardware is what, you put ANYone from digg in the position of handling this kind of stuff and it would be done right.
We had 9000 desktop PC's - which means 3000 PC's are refresh a year (approximately) based on a 3 year rollover.
I can assure you a business getting rid of 3000 PC's - you could afford to have one guy clean the drives of data, re-install Windows XP using the retail CDkey sticker from the side of the box (wiping the VLK copy from the drive) and then ebaying them, that's 250 PC's a month and even if they got 'only 100$' per PC that's 25,000$ worth of PC sales a month - MORE THAN ENOUGH to cover the asset managers wage and the guy who collects and re-installs retail XP on the machines.
Any machines which won't boot / have faults - fine pull the hard disk, shred it, ebay the machine driveless - 50$
Our asset manager and security team where I worked were the most infuriating people I've ever worked with, the waste I've seen in IT depts has sickened me. - alvinlee123, on 01/28/2009, -0/+2I got an odd sense of satisfaction watching those hard drives getting crushed
- inactive, on 01/28/2009, -1/+3Modern computers and speakers have this feature called a volume control. I know you're asking yourself, why didn't they think of that sooner! Well, someone finally did. I really suggest you get a new computer with a volume control included in the OS and/or speakers with a little volume knob on them. It's quite nice living in the future.
- ttsupra26, on 01/28/2009, -1/+3Dugg for using the High Quality link to post.
- mrBitch, on 01/28/2009, -0/+2@superc0w, how much experience do you have with Unix and other *nix based OS ? Where are you located ?
- quaunaut, on 01/28/2009, -2/+4Obviously you don't understand what the HD shredding is for. Its not for Mom and Pop. Its so modern companies or people with a lot of truly sensitive data can have it all completely unrecoverable. Also, if you think killdisk can do much of anything, you haven't read half the stuff tons of people straight out of the NSA say pretty often. They've figured out ways to get data off of just about anything up to light microwaving(sub-800 watt).
So basically: Why don't you know what you're talking about? This obviously isn't for average people. - blacktriangle, on 01/28/2009, -0/+2Killdisk Instead?
- DeathRay2K, on 01/28/2009, -2/+4100% recycled, pretty cool!
- abrasion, on 01/28/2009, -1/+3Wobbles: thanks for the response, I've been dugg down for perfectly valid posts too often lately :P
I admit yes even a SINGLE bloody pass should make the drive completely clear but surely 2 or 3 should satisfy these idiots! However, no they want it physically WASTED, awesome use of earths ***** minerals / resources / time / labour / money.
People are starving in this world but we're sending men down in mines to gather resources, manufacture metals, plastics, electonic IC's etc etc just to shred them because someone has a document on it.
Oh and while I'm at it, I work for the government and I can assure you, they don't just shred server drives full of documents, they shred workstation drives which barely have anything more than XP on the partition, the users don't even have local write access and the documents are on the servers, none the less SHRED THE DRIVES! awesome.....
the Ridiculous :/ - abrasion, on 01/28/2009, -0/+2RobMack: Also if you want to be really pedantic, why not write all 0's to the disk, then all 1's? surely that has to completely scramble it for sure, in 2 passes - no questions asked.
- jessetessej, on 01/28/2009, -0/+2Was that really loud for anyone else?
- Eagle193, on 01/28/2009, -0/+1I watched the whole thing.
- inactive, on 01/29/2009, -0/+1erm 0's wont protect your data, random*3-10 will make it good enough for credit card details though, goverment files probably need this though. disks slip leaving fragments of the original data intact, even with FDE if an attacker has enough time/power they can get the data unless the disk is physically broken
- inactive, on 01/28/2009, -0/+1Do I hear Madoff in the background?
- Wiradon, on 01/29/2009, -0/+1bigger is better
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQYPCPB1g3o&fea ... - spritom, on 01/27/2009, -2/+3But will it blen....er....I guess it does.
- bluesz, on 01/28/2009, -0/+1i couldve made a mona lisa with all of those drives..
- ClevelandBrown, on 01/28/2009, -0/+1...the ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the force.
- encrypteduser, on 01/29/2009, -0/+1/thread
- mrBitch, on 01/28/2009, -0/+1Why, is that what your drives are full of ?
... just asking. - mrBitch, on 01/28/2009, -0/+1Volume control? Holy cow, you're right !
...Are you psychic? - mrBitch, on 01/28/2009, -0/+1Yerp, the broke stuff was my fave too... My other even more favourite fave was when the guy says, " Oooh " when the drive flips and then it looks like it may escape the hungry clutches of the shredding teeth... but then it gets yanked under at the last moment, and then there is just a little tear escaping from the left lower corner of the left eye of the guy that just went " Oooh " that I mentioned earlier.
- mrBitch, on 01/28/2009, -0/+1Yeah, same, the &fmt=18 bit was noted and dugg.
- Po0py, on 01/28/2009, -0/+1Congratulations. Your data is now secure.
- hugehead83, on 01/28/2009, -0/+1What a waste of fun, powerful magnets they could be playing with :(
- mrBitch, on 01/28/2009, -0/+1Good play, I also always use "nutting honey" as my reply to any question I get from my wife...
- Ragarnok, on 01/28/2009, -1/+2Take that windows ME!
- mrBitch, on 01/28/2009, -0/+1For $5, I will take that bet !
... Have you got a macbook to spare? - ialan2, on 04/29/2009, -0/+1yo dawg...
- mrBitch, on 01/28/2009, -0/+1here, let me send you a few "other" videos that you may find even more "satisfying"...
- mrBitch, on 01/28/2009, -0/+1In case the drive had some really important info, do these guys also offer a data recovery service?
- n0tquitehuman, on 02/05/2009, -0/+1I could watch this for hours... hypnotizing...
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