DEF CON 23 - Zoz - And That's How I Lost My Other Eye...Explorations in Data Destruction (Fixed)

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Publicado 2015-08-21

How much more paranoid are you now than you were four years ago? Warrantless surveillance and large-scale data confiscation have brought fear of the feds filching your files from black helicopter territory into the mainstream. Recent government snatch-and-grabs have run the gamut from remotely imaging foreign servers to straight up domestic coffeeshop muggings, so if you think you might need to discard a lot of data in hurry you're probably right. In their legendary DEF CON 19 presentation Shane Lawson, Bruce Potter and Deviant Ollam kicked off the discussion, and now it's time for another installment. While purging incriminating material residing on spinning disks remains the focus, the research has been expanded to encompass solid state storage and mobile solutions to your terabyte trashing needs. With best efforts to comply with the original constraints, the 2015 update features more analysis of the efficacy of kinetic projectiles, energetic materials and high voltages for saving your freedom at the potential cost of only a redundant body part... or two.

Zoz is a robotics engineer, rapid prototyping specialist and lifelong enthusiast of the pyrotechnic arts. Once he learned you could use a flamethrower and a coffee creamer bomb to fake a crop circle for TV he realized there are really no limits to creative destruction.

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@CGoody564 hace 7 años

goes to get food BOOM ...fuck, i forgot to bring my laptop
@lohphat hace 8 años

How about simply giving it to United Airlines as checked baggage. Abandon all hope of seeing the data again.
@_lime. hace 5 años

Pull the chad move and just store everything on volatile memory.
@prjndigo hace 5 años

Anybody who welds rails on the railroad will tell you precisely how you failed on thermite... you have to light the BOTTOM first or the fuel protects the "work".
@NetRolller3D hace 7 años

52:40 Prototype of the system eventually deployed in the Galaxy Note 7.
@ChaplainDaveSparks hace 7 años

I suppose a small thermonuclear warhead would violate the ground rules?
@Squizziles hace 11 meses

7 years later but HDD destruction really is just the mechanical equivalent to actually murdering someone and burying the body 😂
@joebaldwin3347 hace 8 años

One day I'll get to go to Defcon (I live in the UK) and I can only hope Zoz is still doing talks as they are always my favourites. Another classic. Thanks
@Frosty-oj6hw hace 8 años

For anyone wondering this version has fixed audio.
@MetroidChild hace 4 años

Just put a very small blasting cap on each memory chip of the SSD, it'll be easily contained and the chips will end up in hundreds of unrecoverable pieces, even something like using a violently burning resistor might work wonders.
@nikushim6665 hace 7 años

I have seen multiple panels over the years on this subject, just about every one ignores induction heating. Its simple, and it will burn off the magnetic coating in seconds, without the massive fire or chemical hazards.
@easymac79 hace 5 años

I would not want to be in a booby-trapped datacenter during a lightning storm.
@xapemanx hace 8 años

well done audio's nice on this one ;) hats off to the editor
@inadaizz hace 7 años

41:40 *checks headphones* oooh. lol Excellent talk. Thanks for upload
@christurnblom4825 hace 5 años

When he mentioned those Seagate drive QC issues, that explained a lot for me. I had one that was just fine until I got to about 65% full, then it failed. I opened it up after trying every non-invasive method and there was actually a piece of dust or metal sliver under the platinum layer! I thought it was a one in ten thousand thing but now I know. I would have warrantied it but it failed 2 months after the warranty was up.
@DaGhost141 hace 8 años

You just gotta love Zoz, this guy is amazing.
@DedmenMiller hace 8 años

14:50 im just imagining that happening in a datacenter with a rack full of 24-drive fileservers
@jamcdonald120 hace 5 años

The key to thermite is that its not an explosion really just a hot metal, you have to make the metal fall onto the platter. your internal solution should work in a 2u data server with vertical disks. also, you have to take the drive top off for best results
@xXMegaUltraNinjaXx hace 8 años

20mm APHE cannon shell get rekt HDD.
@gordslater hace 8 años

"you're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off"