Thanks Tim!, that was the link I was grepping for at wikipedia, my memory seems to be good but short... =)
On 6/1/05, Timothy Donahue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 01 June 2005 08:06 am, Johan P. Lindstrvm wrote: > > The military (at least in Sweden) bakes a Trotyl / Pentyl cake with > > the drives as stuffing, don't know if that would change the magnetic > > properties but most likely make the process of collecting/organizing > > the pieces of the same drive quite labourious. > > > > I read an article on encasing your drives with Magnesium and > > Aluminium-Oxide and hook it up to the power supply through some > > programmable circut to remotely melt your drives, this would create a > > plasma at some 3000+ Celcius. Cant seem to find it again though... > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exothermic_reaction > > > > You are might be thinking about using something like thermite. (Please note > that thermite is dangerous stuff to play with because it does reach around > 3000 C.) An oxy-acetyleme torch would be just as effective and a whole lot > safer. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermite > > Tim Donahue
