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Subject: Re: What's in my hard drive? How can I get rid of it?
From: Kurt Buff <kurt.buff@gmail.com>
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On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 11:07 AM, Matthew Seaman <matthew@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 18/02/2015 17:30, Roland Smith wrote:
>> HF can definitely free you of all worries about harddrives.
>
> To be sure.  It's skin permeable and has a high affinity for calcium,
> which -- amongst other effects -- tends to perturb your heart rhythm.
> Enough HF, and you'll never worry about harddrives again.
>
> If that doesn't kill you, then it will leach calcium out of your bones,
> which causes the affected areas to swell up and turn comically rubbery
> and results in weeks of agonizing pain.
>
> HF is also not that strong as an acid -- less so than common or garden
> HCl.  For this purpose however (dissolving lumps of technology), I'd go
> with something that was also a strong oxidant viz. conc Nitric Acid.
>
>         Cheers,
>
>         Matthew

Or aqua regia, perhaps.

Unless you go the combustible route, with thermite.

Kurt