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How to Build a Hard Drive Wind Chime For Spring
Posted by
Zonk
on Fri Feb 25, 2005 08:44 PM
from the beware-ninja-hackers dept.
from the beware-ninja-hackers dept.
tyrani writes "Spring is just around the corner and the front of the house isn't going to decorate itself. Build a Hard Drive Wind Chime and show your neighbors what a cool geek you really are." He's honest, too. From the article: "Many people linking this page on their blogs claim that this is a secure way of destroying your hard drive and its sensitive data. It is not completely true! The platters are never used in this HOWTO and could potentially be stolen by ninjas while you're making a wind chime and the data recovered by ninja-hackers."
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An anonymous reader writes "I'm wondering if anyone else out there has a stack of old hard drives sitting around and doesn't know what to do with them. I always remove the hard drives of my parents' and friends' computers before they recycle them or get a new computer, so now I've got a whole bunch sitting around. One, I'd like to dispose of them and know that whatever data was there is gone, but before that, I'd like to hook them up, one by one, and scan them to make sure there's nothing vital there worth saving. Some are years old and may be totally dead for all I know, but is there a good system for hooking up a hard drive as an additional device, perhaps via USB? And what's a pretty good way to ensure that someone else won't pull them out later on and find usable data?" Well to start with you could always use your hard drives to make electricity or create a decorative wind chime. There are also many different options to ensure that your data doesn't fall into the hands of the enemy. What other suggestions can folks come up with?
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Rarr (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Rarr (Score:2)
Prag! (Score:2)
Heh I would have laughed harder at this if your nickname was Beecher instead of Davis.
No (Score:5, Funny)
Re:No (Score:3, Funny)
Nope, got me, I can't think of anything.
Allow me to be the first... (Score:5, Insightful)
It doesn't have anything to do with harddrives, might as well have been an engine, mix master, or VCR. All he did was to string up a couple of shiny parts.
Mac Artists (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Allow me to be the first... (Score:3, Insightful)
Wind chimes are the tool of the devil (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Wind chimes are the tool of the devil (Score:5, Funny)
Parent
Re:Wind chimes are the tool of the devil (Score:2)
Re:Wind chimes are the tool of the devil (Score:4, Informative)
Not only that, but this article should have been filed under YRO.
Parent
So... (Score:5, Funny)
I'm a bad person. (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:I'm a bad person. (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:I'm a bad person. (Score:2)
Already (Score:5, Funny)
Didn't have to be a hard drive.. (Score:5, Insightful)
The so-called hack does not really use anything that is unique to a hard drive. He just cannibalized one to get some metal rings and some shiny metal thingies to hang them from.
Could have used a VCR, a CD player or even a bike!
A little lame.
wind chimes are the devil (Score:5, Funny)
I've found that cutting the string that supports the ball or disk in the center is the best method for dealing with them. The neighbor generally doesn't notice anything different for quite some time and when they do, they are usually stymied as to how to fix it.
Re:wind chimes are the devil (Score:5, Funny)
Parent
That's great but... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:That's great but... (Score:2)
Step 1: steal one of those windchimes
Step 2: reassemble
Re:That's great but... (Score:2, Funny)
You have to go to Soviet Russia for that.
Actually I made one once, but it only stored 2 bits.
Re:That's great but... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:That's great but... (Score:2)
Hey, if it works for cell phones...)
Ninjas!! (Score:3, Funny)
Too funny (Score:2, Funny)
In other useful advises... (Score:4, Funny)
Finally (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Finally (Score:3, Funny)
Oblig... (Score:5, Funny)
How about clocks? (Score:2)
Pentium earrings (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Pentium earrings (Score:2)
Whoah.. anybody click on the first link in that search? Glad I have safe search off!
Re:Pentium earrings (Score:2, Funny)
Copyright Infingement evasion tactic (Score:2, Funny)
Windchimes drive me crazy. (Score:2)
cool? (Score:2)
that's right, because there's nothing cooler than having a lot of rings on the wind-chime that you made out of a hard drive. except maybe your gold-plated babylon five pocket protector.
Ninja-hackers? (Score:2, Funny)
Exactly how does one hack a ninja? Is it like hacking an Aibo, only more silent and deadly? Sounds fun, anyway...
Uhhh. I submitted this story on WEDNESDAY (Score:3, Interesting)
Rejected
And I even included a link to another page on the subject
WTF?
um... (Score:2)
Be carefull... (Score:2, Informative)
Promoting Magnet Ignorance (Score:5, Funny)
- AC
Quicker method (Score:2, Funny)
1. Drill hole in hard drive
2. Attach string
Of course, these don't make the nice ringing sound of a wind chime, they tend to clunk together.
Here's another method:
1. Duct tape hard drive to tree.
If you do enough of these, is it a RAID wind chime?
I've done this... (Score:2, Informative)
Destroying harddrives (Score:3, Interesting)
I mean, lets say I theoretically have an old harddrive with information on it that I absolutely want permanently destroyed. Whats the best way to do it on the cheap for a college student? I don't have access to acid or anything else like that.
I don't want to just throw it out because god knows who could find it, so I've wondered about turning it into art that nobody would find suspicious.
Re:erm.. (Score:2)
Older Drives (Score:2)
They make a very very nice true bell like ringing sound. The more modern drive disks sound tinny. I would take the modern disks and cut them into segments. This also makes sure that the data is not easily recoverable. That and the liberal use of sand paper.
seriously - look through grandma's closet. There might be something useful there.
Case in point.... (Score:2)
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/02/25/stance_ang
Re:NOLF2? (Score:2)