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Zephik
04-17-2009, 05:29 PM
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http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/04/17/this-usb-drive-will-self-destruct-in-24-hours/?awesm=tcrn.ch_J2&utm_medium=awesm-twitter&utm_content=techcrunch-autopost&utm_campaign=techcrunch&utm_source=direct-awesm

[Takes off sunglasses dramatically]

They call me Masuda. Yoshihiko Masuda. And I'm here to save your data from being stolen.

Seriously though, how cool is this hard drive?? Give me a Terabyte edition at a decent price and we're in business! We'll see what a surprise police raid can find on me. Finally, I can get rid of my stockpile of microwaves! ...I mean... what microwaves? [looks around nervously]

XcOM
04-18-2009, 10:47 AM
ibm have something for the MOD, if you take a laptop out the building with confodential information it low level formats the drive, they also are incorporating sim cards into some drives so then can send a text to wipe all the data

mtekk
04-18-2009, 03:04 PM
ibm have something for the MOD, if you take a laptop out the building with confodential information it low level formats the drive, they also are incorporating sim cards into some drives so then can send a text to wipe all the data

IBM's always been in the data destruction business, a while back their hard drives had this self-nuking "feature" (defect) that earned them the nickname "deathstars".