A corporation has designed a self-destructing Flash Drive. - The user presses a button on the side of the device & a built-in power supply activates an electric detonator, which burns through the printed circuit board with a shaped-charge jet.

[–] • 2 pts

(edited )

Is anyone old enough to remember the old self-destructing recordings (vinyl records, reel-to-reel tapes) from the original Mission Impossible TV series? "The Secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions. This tape will self-destruct in five seconds....." Lol

Were the old spy movies and TV series, (James Bond, etc), many years ago, how (((they))) began brainwashing us into believing that everything our intelligence agencies were doing in secret, was benevolent and meant to protect us from evil?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhPwhv2aRZc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y9NtHlJvbY

link

[–] • 0 pt

Eh they had self destructing stuff in the more recent movies. I don't remember exactly what sort of media it was.

parent
link

[–] • 0 pt

Yeah the self-destructing message has always been a key component of MI. But the old vinyl record dissolving is really classic. Notice also that it plays from the inside out?

parent
link

[–] • 2 pts

Pathetic. Have these guys never heard of encryption? Encrypt contents, erase key when button is pressed, which is just a small number of bits.

link

[–] • 4 pts

Physical destruction of the device is usually required by governments as the final EOL step. With encryption and removing just the key, you still have data present. It would be very difficult, but not impossible, to recover data assuming the target was high-value enough, and there's always a chance the key is stored somewhere else.

If there's a hole through the die there's no chance of recovering anything.

parent
link

[–] • 3 pts

If it was important they could just throw a supercomputer at it for 5 minutes.

parent
link

[–] • 2 pts

It would take 13,689 trillion trillion trillion trillion years with all the computers in the world working at once to crack basic AES 256.

https://scrambox.com/article/brute-force-aes/

But what about processing power increasing over time?

Earliest crack date is the year 2,276 assuming Moore's Law can continue to hold (which it hasn't). That's using all of the computers in the world in the future.

parent
link

Load more (3 replies)

[–] • 2 pts

That kind of processing power is what I mean. If it's high enough value, the money and time will be there.

parent
link

Load more (1 reply)

[–] • 2 pts

Where physical destruction is required, you'd have to open the drive to verify destruction. At that point, it seems a hammer or grinder would be just as easy. A hole through the chip wouldn't prevent reading if someone was really dedicated.

parent
link

[–] • 3 pts

It depends on how much of the die was destroyed. I'm going to assume that the charge will destroy the entire die, or the majority of it, which would incapacitate the drive.

This is designed for use in situations where you have to get rid of data quickly. Pressing a button and having an eraser size hole in the flash memory is going to destroy whatever was there.

parent
link

[–] • 1 pt

Did they name it the Clinton drive?

link

[–] • 1 pt

(edited )

I was reading about this last week

https://www.global.toshiba/ww/news/corporate/2011/04/pr1301.html

Self-Encrypting Drives equipped with Wipe Technology, they are used to secure sensitive printer buffer data. it deletes its encryption keys when power is removed or it's connected to an unauthorized host system that it doesn't recognise.

I'm sure you could create much the same thing by encrypting it yourself and then storing the keys in some battery backed static ram

.

We really need some persistent blockchain online storage, where you could upload something and have it available permanently (maybe by buying a slot) Then you wouldn't need to store it on your PC or have it deleted by a google drive scan. Backing up is fine, but sometimes you don't want a backup in your house in case some jobsworth in the police gets the wrong idea about what a green frog means