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0 pointsTuring_Machine8y ago0 comments

The DEFCON guy used 15 grams of thermite. An AN-M14 TH3 incendiary grenade contains ~750 grams of thermite (technically thermate). Those are two different things. Entirely.

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Turing_MachineOP8y ago

Here's what 1 kg of thermite does to a hard drive:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lnqeodIIUw

I'm comfortable that the Curie temperature has been exceeded for all of those platters. :-)

tscs378y ago

Good luck getting that into a datacenter.

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