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Mission Impossible type CD Drive

14 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/mission-impossible-type-cd-drive.33240/

iMav
iMav Original post #1
Aug 3, 2006 at 11:59 AM
remember the famous dialogue of Mission Impossible "this message will self distruct in 5 seconds" .... here a CD drive that does something similar ....

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Thanks to Plextor’s new PlexEraser, you won’t have to microwave your unwanted CD/DVD discs — that contain sensitive data — anymore. This piece of hardware “makes a CD or DVD unreadable by re-recording over the lead-in and data sectors of a write-once disc rendering all the data unusable” in just under six minutes. Pricing and availability have not yet been announced.

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gxsaurav #2
Aug 3, 2006 at 1:38 PM
lol, good to hide all the pr0n or the world domination plan
aku
aku #4
Aug 5, 2006 at 12:02 AM
naah.. nuthin cool abt it...
Venom
Venom #5
Aug 5, 2006 at 12:12 AM
I'd have enough brains in me to break my CD into half or rub it on the ground with my foot. But if its really really sensitive data, there's nothing as good as the sewage.
rohan
rohan #7
Aug 5, 2006 at 11:27 PM
i'd rather keep the CD safe with me if it contains sensitive data rather than losing it.
dOm1naTOr
Aug 5, 2006 at 11:46 PM
Nice thin if the cops come for a raid in the home...what they gonna get are crappy discs which looks perfectly right...
I think..won't come handy for me..
iMav
iMav #10
Aug 5, 2006 at 11:53 PM
i too thought what was the company thinking when it actually went ahead with something so stupid .... just break the damn cd ... but then again if u think about it .... cds are plastic ... recyling ..... keeps the environment clean .... u throw cds in the sewage ... break em ... with this v can recycle em to keep r environment clean
dIgItaL_BrAt
Aug 6, 2006 at 12:08 AM
err....but u still have to dispose off the cd after u destroy the data.
K
KKK #12
Aug 6, 2006 at 11:49 AM
darn !!! 6 min !!! nope i will break the CD in much lesser time !!
Pathik
Pathik #13
Aug 6, 2006 at 12:28 PM
yeah me too....
P
Aug 7, 2006 at 6:48 PM
It's surely a siht device worth nothing