[BBLISA] Possible idea for September meeting--data destruction party

[Dean Anderson]

I have a high intensity degausser that is used to degauss aircraft
engine crankshafts, and such.  These are magnetized in order to detect
microcracks with the magnaflux process. I also still have the magnaflux
machine, but its too big and too dangerous to fool with. The magnaflux
also isn't portable, and requires a lot of 12volt high current
batteries--24 I think.

But the degausser is about 2ft by 3ft, runs on 240v and requires about
30 amps (we had it in a 200 amp box, but it still dimmed the lights)  
What goes though the coil loop will have no discernable magnetic field
afterwards....  I always thought of the movie "the philadelphia
experiment" every time we used it.

Might work on a portable 7500watt generator...  If someone has one of
those, fun could be had by all. ;-)

		--Dean

On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, David Allan wrote:

> Since we don't have a speaker for September, and I don't have anybody to 
> suggest, I was thinking about other ideas for a meeting.  One thought that 
> occurred to me is that I have a big box of magnetic media that I need to 
> have destroyed, including most problematically 10 or 15 old hard disks 
> some of which don't even spin up any more.
> 
> While I appreciate the hack value of
> 
> http://driveslag.eecue.com/articles/index.php?artid=1
> 
> I don't really have the time or space to use that solution.
> 
> More practically, if a few folks would be interested in having a mobile 
> data destruction company come somewhere in the MIT area, I'll look into 
> who's available and what it would cost.
> 
> If you would be interested, i.e, you also have a bunch of media you'd like 
> to destroy, please drop me an email.  It doesn't matter if it's personal 
> or corporate media, just let me know how much stuff you have and what it 
> is (floppies, hard drives, CDROMs, tapes, even paper records, etc. ) so I 
> can get a sense of pricing to report back.  I'm going to look for someone 
> who will do physical destruction of the media while we witness it.
> 
> Just to make clear, responding doesn't commit you to anything, I'm just 
> trying to get a sense of whether there's enough interest that I should 
> even take the time to look for a company.
> 
> Dave
> 
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