On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 14:53, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
I wonder how quickly one could incinerate a memory card in the field with high success rate? Destroy the data and the passphrases don't help.
The first thing that popped into my mind is a USB key with a small cake of potassium permanganate affixed to the flash chip and a rupturable bladder filled with glycerin on top. In case of problem, squeeze to rupture the bladder and throw it somewhere. If outside and near weeds, it'll be very hard to find before the misture does its exothermic thing. That mixture will ignite thermite... should be able to do a number on a flash chip pretty well. -- Roy M. Silvernail is roy@rant-central.com, and you're not Never Forget: It's Only 1's and 0's! SpamAssassin->procmail->/dev/null->bliss http://www.rant-central.com