The other day, I saw a video an old friend from high school had posted on social media. He was wearing his wife’s sunglasses and smashing hard drives, CD’s, and thumb drives on the curb outside a vacant lot for the company he worked for. The sunglasses were very large, covered in rhinestones. He thought it was just a funny look to put on social media. He said he borrowed his wife’s glasses to protect his eyes from flying pieces of plastic and metal. Honestly, I couldn’t believe what I was seeing.
This was sensitive information a business was allowing one of their employees to render inoperative with a claw hammer and a stretch of old sidewalk in the heart of a downtown area of a major US city. When I got over the initial reaction of how ridiculous he looked in those giant sparkly sunglasses, I couldn’t hope but wonder how he thought they would have offered him any sort of protection at all if a piece of metal did fly into his face. Second, the environmental impact alone of breaking hard drives into pieces and leaving them in a dumpster somewhere was disheartening to say the least, especially since we all need to be more environmentally conscious these days.
There are all sorts of elements in computer parts that are considered harmful unless properly disposed of. And last, but far from least, hitting something with a hammer isn’t nearly enough to render a storage volume inoperable. It is pretty simple. With the right tools, to recapture data and images off storage media, thus compromising the security you should be protecting!
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A Phiston hard drive crusher isn’t just some idiot in an alley with a hammer. Our devices ensure complete destruction, mangling the components of a hard drive. They can also be attached directly to the server rack. They are completely enclosed for safety as well as secured disposal. This means no bits of metal flying into your skin, but also no way that device is going to go missing on the way from the server room to the sandlot for hammer time. Contact us to make sure your security is in good hands today!
