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Destroy your hard drive with remote control

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Okay - I think this is kind of James Bond like, but I suppose it is also a good way to keep corporate espionage at bay. Find one of these remote control hard drive destroyers.

From Boing Boing

The Washington Post’s Security Fix blog has a story about an alleged Ukrainian cybercrime boss named Dmitry Ivanovich Golubov. The story itself is interesting, but the part that stuck out was this gadget, called a “raskat” device, which comes with a wireless keychain fob that can remotely trigger the destruction of data on a computer hard drive.

Securityfix Raskat-Thumb Golubov doesn’t dispute that he owned a Raskat at the time, but he says he purchased it online to resell it…

Read more about it at Boing BoingÂ