You missed the part where they sell a drive crusher too... drives a wedge down the middle of the drive, or puts lots of holes in an SSD, up to 2 at a time.

-T

Ask yourself, is it worth it for a bank, gmail, the FBI to invest $9k (or more, for the higher-end device), or risk $X0,000 * $NumberOfCustomers in legal fees and triage and incident response if a bad drive were to escape into the wild? I can guarantee you a single investment of $9k is a no-brainer and is dirt cheap compared to any incident response for stolen data. Not sure what "simpler methods" exist than: 1. insert drive, 2. ??? 3. drive is dead/data gone. When you have to get rid of multiple drives a week, things like this are a must-have.

-T

Those fills of random bits work real well when the drive fails and can no longer be accessed.... A motivated entity could possibly recover the bits still on chip/disc, its up to the organization to decide how to dispose of the drive and if its worth their/their clients' interest in making sure the data is not recoverable. I wouldn't want my bank to simply toss a bad drive out in the normal garbage.... -T

Described here (w/dump): https://lkml.org/lkml/2009/1/2/373

Simple version:
"dont kill the messenger" except when the messenger is going to kill you. Its printk sending notice that the leap second happened that deadlocks against the timer doing the leap second (both vying for xtime_lock). Call it a "feature" of the NTP code. Hence the "turn off NTPD" workaround, if NTP doesnt get notified it should implement the leap second from somewhere upstream, it wont notify about it to the kernel, and the printk shouldnt happen.

-T

As many others above have posted, though none got any mod points for (yet)...

Its free, opensource (GNU), widely available as a standard package to most platforms, etc. You create a password file, encrypt with gpg, then sign it with each user's key that should have access to it (requires all users to have proper gpg keys setup). When someone leaves, you revoke their key from the file and they can no longer get to it, without having to do much else. If thats too complicated, just do a basic crypt (gpg -c) and share that password around. Then if someone leaves just decrypt and re-encrypt with a new password.

You forgot the step where you wait a month or four for the dx cameras to ship from HongKong....

-tm

No, its simple congressional logic: that since you are flying on a commercial airliner, and terrorists have flown on and blownup/crashed commercial airliners, you must be a terrorist, therefore probable cause exists to search you with overpriced gadgets that serve to slow down the lines of passengers (unless you pay them more $$ to bypass them) and not detect any of the things the manufacturers promised they would, but find everything else that could make them run your bag through multiple times... while said manufacturer, and their share holders (coincidentally people that helped construct/pass the bills making this mess happen) is raking in taxpayer $$.........

-Tm

And if you go a bit further north and west, you can go to the Pinball Museum: http://pacificpinball.org/

-T

Maybe, but they would make a great pattern to build a mold so that the part could be reproduced with the proper materials.

-Tm

Created one, but can't sign in cause the sign-in form rarely shows up (flash?). grrr

-T

I just removed similar tape from my bike handlebars cause it was worn out. Granted, it wasn't on the same nano scale, but the tape I used has small hairlike nubs on it that aid in grip, especially when used in conjunction with gloves also having the greptile material on them. Now it seems it is only being used for golf gloves and grips. Worked amazingly well..

tm

Calcium carbide, in rock form would work, just add water and you get acetylene gas. If you keep that contained and mixed with the proper amount of air before igniting, yeh, it makes a bright flash and loud boom. On a plane though, the rocks take a while to bubble away into the gas, and it smells very strongly of onions. Also, you need a very large amount to do anything serious, on the order of several large garbage bags full (caver rating scale: 2bagger, 3bagger...), stuff very unlikely to go unnoticed. Otherwise you get about the equivalent of a flash-bang.

The rocks are small and look like small bits of concrete, but can be crushed between your fingers. You have to keep them super dry or they start to emit gas just from the atmospheric moisture, which is easily smelled, and would probably show up on the airport screener's volatiles sniffer (I assume the xray machines have these built in these days, tho I have seen some of the wipe-pad ones still around). Otherwise they would blend in with a handful of normal gravel.

-tm

Dalton (your smaller neighbor about 30mi south), and specifically Dalton Utilities, got that all kick started. It was building out massive infrastructure to fuel the booming carpet industry of the late 80's-90's (most millionaires per-capita prior to the dot-com boom), strung fiber along with the new lines, mainly for daq/scada at first, but launched into more general access starting in 2000 when they started installing fiber everywhere. Now they have Optilink, which has up to 2.5Gbps (graph shows 10gbps) though their offerings to the public list only 20mbps. Also independent of the ILECs (GTE/alltel/bellsouth or whatever it is now), and also running phones and TV with the internet service.

-tm

And they dont for fingerprints?? (Which have a much higher false-positive rate)

-Tm