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    Live As If You Are Already In The Future At Hacker Camp

    A Portable Hard Drive Shredder for Every Office!
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    Image of joetato joetato
    08/20/09

    In reply to Live As If You Are Already In The Future At Hacker Camp
    Data toilets.
    Macromedia Flush?

    Insert joke about downloading here.
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    Image of SavitriRaven SavitriRaven
    08/19/09

    In reply to Live As If You Are Already In The Future At Hacker Camp
    "Imagine being able to control every aspect of your phone, including the very network where you make telephone calls. It seems bizarrely revolutionary."

    Hey, this is a standard in Europe. You just obtain a SIM card from your operator of choice, put it in your cellphone and you're ready to go. Doesn't seem that revolutionary to me :-)
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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    08/28/09

    @SavitriRaven: Showoff.
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    Image of burlybax burlybax
    08/18/09

    In reply to Live As If You Are Already In The Future At Hacker Camp
    I say to you Nerds of the world, UNITE! We must never acquiesce!
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    Image of Jeriba Jeriba
    08/17/09

    In reply to Live As If You Are Already In The Future At Hacker Camp
    I love the banner that says "Camp like a Pirate" for its grammatical ambiguity.
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    Image of braak: You are, as usual, completely correct. braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
    08/17/09

    In reply to Live As If You Are Already In The Future At Hacker Camp
    Yeah, I don't really know that I'm excited about the idea of being able to control every aspect of my cellphone.

    It'd just be one more vast field of information in which I would have to make decisions for which I am completely unqualified.
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    Image of Illogic Illogic
    08/17/09

    In reply to Live As If You Are Already In The Future At Hacker Camp
    Spontaneous first reaction: Fuck yeah! It's like a wandering tribe of hackers out of Snow Crash or something!
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    Image of Anekanta - Go Play! Anekanta - Go Play!
    08/17/09

    In reply to Live As If You Are Already In The Future At Hacker Camp
    Now that sounds like the most awesome racecar game ever! Do the brakes only work if you make squealing & screeching sounds?

    I want one for my nephews!
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    Image of Lobishomen Lobishomen
    08/17/09

    In reply to Live As If You Are Already In The Future At Hacker Camp
    They speak German in the Netherlands?
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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    08/18/09

    @Lobishomen: No, obviously. But this is an international gathering, and the CCC folks (from Germany) invented the Datenklo. So that's what everybody calls it.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    08/17/09

    In reply to Live As If You Are Already In The Future At Hacker Camp
    Upon first glance of the Datenklo I thought:
    Worst. TARDIS. Ever.
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    Image of Anekanta - Go Play! Anekanta - Go Play!
    08/14/09

    In reply to A Portable Hard Drive Shredder for Every Office!
    Is it just me or does this seem incredibly wasteful? Isn't there a way to erase sensitive data without harming the drive?

    That way, even old low end drives could given to poor schools or third world kids, or something.

    Or failing that, can't the drives be dismantled and properly recycled, instead of shredded into bits of mixed but inseparable materials?
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    Image of regis regis
    08/14/09

    In reply to A Portable Hard Drive Shredder for Every Office!
    excellent. with SarbOx and some of the new Payment Card Industry (PCI) regulations, disposal is becoming a big deal for a lot of companies. i work for a company that is subject to both sarbox and pci, and right now we've got a badassed degausser, but the shredder would be way more fun. plus it would work on non-magnetic media.
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    Image of Chip Overclock Chip Overclock
    08/16/09

    @regis: Mrs. Overclock (etc.) and I have a rather large box in the basement of the Palatial Overclock Estate containing every single hard drive from every computer we've ever owned. This would solve our storage dilemma.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_ My Brute Dojo Code CDIAFIFE GitEmSteveDave_ My Brute Dojo Code CDIAFIFE
    08/17/09

    @Chip Overclock: Have you ever considered a mini blast furnace using a leaf blower and bricks? It's like a regular fire, only overclocked.
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    Image of Chip Overclock Chip Overclock
    08/17/09

    @GitEmSteveDave_DOESHookUp: Yeah, that, or one of my 12 gauge shotguns with OO buckshot (I normally shoot target loads but I'm afraid they wouldn't penetrate the metal outer case).
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    Image of geesejuggler geesejuggler
    08/14/09

    In reply to A Portable Hard Drive Shredder for Every Office!
    Finally, we have to the tools to fight Skynet!
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    08/14/09

    In reply to A Portable Hard Drive Shredder for Every Office!
    I'm gonna need this for the very sensitive data on my, uh, "friend"'s hard drive. Yes. Friend. He looks like me.
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    Image of Lamar Henderson Lamar Henderson
    08/14/09

    In reply to A Portable Hard Drive Shredder for Every Office!
    Hey, is that Perez Hilton in photo #5? So this is how he gets all his celebrity gossip.
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    Image of Sunshineyness Sunshineyness
    08/14/09

    In reply to A Portable Hard Drive Shredder for Every Office!
    Yeah, but isn't it funner to take 'em out back and smash them with a hammer or other such blunt instrument?

    ...or is that just me?
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    08/14/09

    @Sunshineyness: A friend of mine had a homemade 20lb mallet made of rock maple for just this purpose. We called it "The Mouse of Thor".
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    Image of marlowespade marlowespade
    08/14/09

    @Grey_Area: All I can think of is the scene from Office Space where they take a bat to the fax machine while gangster rap music plays.
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    Image of ManchuCandidate ManchuCandidate
    08/14/09

    @marlowespade:
    PC LOAD LETTER???! WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT?!!?!?!?
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