I’m sure one time or another you accidently burned Wedding Crashers to a DVD-R so you could watch it over your friend’s house. What you didn’t know is that the MPAA was tracking you and now has a SWAT team sent to your house to take you into custody. How could you possibly destroy the evidence quickly enough to knock years off your sentence? With CD Punch.
CD Punch is a small, plastic device that lets you slide a CD or DVD in and punch holes in it – thus voiding the data on the disc. Perfect for destroying discs full of private or secure data. It’ll run you about $6.
CD Punch – ultimate gonzo CD security [Red Ferret]
Good for your porn, too. I’m getting one of these.
Why not just break the disk in half and then quarters? Doing so both shatters the plastic media and typically spawlates the reflective layer into very small shards, making recovery exceedingly costly if not impossible.
Check out this Elecom CD/DVD Data Crusher
http://www.ministryoftech.com/2007/02/13/6-super-sweet-security-gadgets
Microwave works better :-D
or just use a normal hole punch?
Uhhh, or you can save your money and snap it?
Just use a microwave.. The FBI uses microwaves to destroy cd’s all the time.. 3 seconds, and it looks pretty damn cool too.
Shreed it but if you have very little time the mircowave it very effecient at getting rid of many at one time. If you have been given a heads up you can shread that special disc and then place it in the microwave so then no one can get the data unless they like molten puzzles!
Another cheaper way is to use throw them out the window into your neighboors yard hopefully they no one will see it so there is no evidence unless they think to look nextdoor or if your really good 2 houses down.
i agree, the microwave is faster and everyone already has one. it also gives a cool light show in the process.
I just put a label on it that says “Private information, please do not read this disc.”
LOL WHAT OMG FAG
I agree, use a microwave, everyone already has one. Plus you get a cool light show in the process.
I’ve found that taking something sharp to the label writing side and scratching (often times scraping) portions of the aluminum right off the plastic works nicely.
The easiest way is to just grab a quarter or anything really that’s metal and pretend the cd is a lotto ticket. Scratch away.
Microwave works the best. It’s pretty much guaranteed to get all the data. With scratching or punching, the data still exists on the parts of the disc that aren’t damaged, and people who are really, reeeaaaalllly determined could get it, but since the microwaves cause the reflective label to shrink and split in so many ways, theres no chance of recovery.
This would be great for destroying my bitch girlfriends CD collection after that freak’n WHORE slep with my best friend. I would put them neatly back in the case so the next time she pulls out her Nelly CD and spreads her legs open like hooker on payday she’ll have something to remember me by. DIE WHORE!
I put one of my girlfriends blue HP CDR’s in the microwave after she misburned it. I told her I knew a better way to “burn” a CD. I ended up setting my microwave on fire. Apparently, the blue ink or paint coating on the top of HP CD’s is highly flamable, and continues to burn similar to a small camp fire. :-O
Expecting to see sparks, and instead seeing sparks followed immediately by bright yellow flames, is interesting to say the least
Face the data side of CD against the wall, slide it on it with your hand pressing it and then slide back. Done!
wouldn’t some sort of trash bin with spinning blades and big crushing gears be better then destroying all your discs one by one?
Only real way to destroy CD’s is to incinerate them completely or grind them up until only a fine powder is left. Anything else(Including the microwave) can allow data to still be read off the bits of CD that are left
Yep like everyone else has pointed out, scratching or removing segments of a disc can still allow for a trained individual to retrieve chunks of data from the remainder or pieces of the disc. If you really want a disc gone then sand the underside of the disc, microwave it, burn it, throw it in some acid or utilise the frisby like shape to throw it as far as you can! And pray no one finds it.
Might be worth having some pigeons on the window sill at all times, so if SWAT infiltrate your home, attach the CDs to their legs and let them fly to far away destination and hope they dont get an MP5 bullet to the face too soon..
This method is a safe bet.. consider it.
Most 10-sheet paper shredders will slice and dice CDs with ease as well (at least, my heavy duty one does).
This is a pathetic waste of money, just find a rough brick wall and scrub scrub scrub and if you’re extra paranoid put it in the microwave and watch the fireworks and if you’re extra extra paranoid that somebody will pull data from it eat it. But I suppose if you’re really paranoid you’ll want to go take a dump somewhere nobody will find it, bury it next to someone random in a graveyard in some random city in a country you don’t even live in.
The only safe method is nuking them from space.
Here’s an idea…put an old (but working) microwave in a lexan box under your desk, hooked up to your UPS (also in the box, cut hole for cord to outlet). Cut a slot through the top of the box and microwave big enough for discs to fit through, but not a hand. Have the timer preset for 5 mins or so, with a hole in the front big enough for a finger to get to the start button only. Cops knock, CDs through the slot, beep, and now even if they cut the power, you’re home free. But the catch is that while this is a wildly creative/paranoid idea, it still might not do the job good enough to avoid data recovery—computer forensics people are tops, and don’t care how expensive the process might cost, thats what we taxpayers are for. Also, if it even comes to this, you’re probably screwed anyway, b/c the cops already know where you live, and have been keeping track of your activity for some time–search warrants typically aren’t handed out for suspicion only, regardless of what you see on TV. So you probably deserve to get caught.
May I suggest fire? I believe subjecting a disk to flames will render it somewhat unsuitable for further use.
Dipping them in boiling oil for a few minutes makes them expand and deform like poppadoms.
Why not just nuke it…its smells bad, but in 1-2 seconds all data is destroyed with ease.
*warning fire hazard* *do not attempted without adult supervision*
This is so over the top unnecessary. Just put a label on your CD marking it as “Private”.
Or what i may or may not of done before to get rid of evidence is to cuck it in the air and then take a baseball bat to it, and then place it on a barbecue. worked for me ;), or maybe it didnt *runs away*
Microwaves are good… but you still get data off them. My stock cd player in my car can play anything to include 15 seconds in a microwave well at least try to play! so shredding them or brick wall is probably your best bet if you know they are coming if they haven’t been watching you for god knows how long!
Won’t destroying the CD/DVDs could give you a charge for destroying evidences ?
What happened to just bending it?
Personally, I prefer the Thermite and Magnesium cord wrapped around my apartment A La Conspiracy Theory.
Nothing a 12 Gauge can’t cure.
I use a drill….I go through a bunch at a time…
Putting metallic objects in a microwave that results in sparks, arcing, or fire is damaging to the magentron – the part the generates the actual microwaves. You also run a great risk of starting a fire and buring down your trailer park “home”. If you’re stupid enough to get caught by the RIAA or put metallic objects in a microwave, you do live in a trailer park don’t you? Scraping the underside of a DVD will not prevent the reading of the underlying data using special techniques. It’s the upper reflective layer that is the most critical part of a DVD. Removing that is more effective but scraping off that top layer results in lots of tiny pieces of metallic mylar, which are a pain to clean up. The only totally effective method of destroying a DVD is to incinerate it. This applies to any media that you want to totally destroy. This is the approved DOD method for destroying all confidential media. Of course building a bonfire fire outdoors is not an option for most people, especially if living in a populated area. Of course that may be allowed in the open trash pit in some trailer parks. The next best method is a good shredder that is made for shredding CDs/DVDs. When a black car with tinted windows pulls up in front of your residence with several very large men wearing dark RIAA emblazoned blazers, you want to get rid of the evidence NOW. Building a fire, microwaving, or scraping really isn’t viable. As for the boiling in oil suggestion – hahaha. Hey guys, could you cool your heels for about 45 minutes while I fire up my deep oil turkey fryer? I’d put my odds on a CD/DVD shredder that can obliterate a disk in seconds. My Fellows PS-77C shredder can atomize a CD/DVD in about 3 seconds.
If you have time; fill the bath tub with Coke and dump the CD/DVDs in there for a couple of hours.
“or just use a normal hole punch?”
I tried that one time with my 3 hole punch and almost broke it. It’s much easier to use a heavy duty scissors or shears.
sand them down with a hand sander? should work with any data storage device.
Microwave 4 seconds per CD, (best results one at a time)
y not just throw it out the car window? not only is it disposed of, but you get to litter in the process!
Or you could put a label on the CD that would completely through them off your case something like “My neices 1st steps” or “Childhood Memories” then u take a disc and you put several very strong viruses on it (make sure they are set to autorun) and put “confidential imformation, keep secure” or “Bootlegged Jay-Z CD” so when they goto test it on one of their computers they will be busy trying to get rid of the viruses. they will prolly leave whatever disc said childhood memories there.
This is stupid. Either don’t burn the stuff to DVD in the first place, or just break them by hand or microwave them (the few seconds it takes to kill a DVD isn’t TOO likely to cause problems, though you do it at your own risk). If you need to buy a special DVD puncher, chances are you’re an idiot.
I dont think any one of us is going to have top secret/life-threatening information on any cd that would warrant some pysho cd reconstructive surgeon to put it back together when its broken in quarters.
Wicked. I can’t imagine any of us are going to have top-secret/life-threatening info on a cd that would warrant some psyocho cd reconstructive surgeon to put it back together when its broken in quarters anyways.
I stick unwanted CD’s and DVD’s into my deskside paper shredder. It makes a lot of noise, but the disk is gone.
Face the data side of CD against the floor, put urs foot on it slide
done
Go to fancy cd puncher/microwave/brickwall/turkey frier/bonfire
Insert head where you think CD/DVD should go
Mutilate yourself as you would a CD/DVD for spending so much f’n time thinking about how to destroy CD/DVD’s.
This is great stuff!!
Wow. I can’t believe the amount of people on the INTERNET (for Christ’s sake) that cant figure out this is a gag. You’ll see these at Spencer’s in a week.