Annihilate Your PC

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Here's how to destroy your computer before the cops haul your ass in.

By Joey the Intern
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The power of thermite

I don't know about you, but the RIAA is starting to scare the piss out of me. Every time I turn on the news there's something about the RIAA suing someone, and getting sued would really put a dent in my five-year plan. So just to be on the safe side I did some research into the wonderful world of thermite.


Thermite is a stable chemical compound that, when ignited, turns into molten iron and burns at approximately 3,000 degrees Celsius. This wonderful substance is used commercially to weld together railroad tracks. But even if you don't hang out in railroad yards, you've probably seen this substance in action already.


Remember the Hindenburg? It was a big zeppelin filled with hydrogen. As it turns out, it was even more of an accident waiting to happen than originally thought. The geniuses who designed this diesel-driven death trap wanted to give its outer hull a pretty metallic sheen. And what better shiny ingredient to add to the paint than, you guessed it, thermite! A research study proved that it was indeed a thermite reaction that ignited the zeppelin's hydrogen, resulting in the deaths of 38 people. So, please folks, don't try this at home or your house may very well end up a smoking ruin.




For the purposes of our thermite demonstration, we decided the ignition system was better off being powered by a battery than by the juice from the computer's power supply. Why? Because in a standard police raid, the first thing they do is cut the power. And how are you supposed to activate a kill switch without power? That would just be embarrassing. Also, we wanted to take this outside to get plenty of ventilation. (One of the chemicals in thermite is a known carcinogen if inhaled in large amounts.) Plus, we haven't a clue as to how many more cancer-causing vapors are released from the melting remnants of a hard drive. I think I'll just let Kevin and the video take it from here. And remember: Don't try this at home!

I've known about thermite for a long time and one can make it at home with only a moderate amount of difficulty.

Magnesium (in a compressed form) is the prime component needed to ignite it. Normal flamage won't work and if you are close enough to lite it then you are way too fucking close and are most likely going to be liquified and completely blind.

Better to use a ignition device (ie blow torch like thingy) to cause the reaction. With thermite remember a little goes a very long way. A few drops worth (of the liquid form) with eat through a car, into the pavement, and turn the sand underneath the pavement into glass.

By the way if you have enough room and insanity you can use thermite to make your own obsidian.

So if you must destroy your computer very fast.....use a blunt object like a baseball bat. You are more likely to have it on hand, be able to apply the principles fast and come out alive.


Save the thermite for well plan acts of terror.....like leveling the RIAA's headquaters or the place where they store their main data base.

That's the complicated way, I'd just smash it with a baseball bat and throw it in the washing machine.

$1,300 waste, but I'm sure it would save me from being sued.

Although I have Kazaa Lite ++ And aparently the RIAA can't track members. Though I doubt that is true...

The RIAA are worse then Ashscroft and Rumsfield.....they are everywhere....and they really are out to get us.

TechTV is great! Yay! Go TechTV!

If the RIAA is coming into your HOME to arrest you, you're already fucked and they don't need your computer for evidence. They already know you're guilty. They could use it as further evidence against you though, if you have files that you aren't sharing.




The industry sued 261 people on Monday and has promised to sue hundreds more in coming weeks as it strives to stamp out music piracy it blames for a three-year slump in CD sales.

The Recording Industry Association of America settled the first of the suits Tuesday for $2,000 - with the mother of a 12-year-old defendant, Brianna LaHara of New York. Brianna was accused of downloading more than 1,000 songs using Kazaa.

The rest can be found here>http://www.bitoffun.com/wei-record_industry.htm


My utmost advice to you; get rid of kazaa. Big ups to the slsk massif!

simple device to play with -

ingredients -
3.5" floppy disk.
nail varnish(preferably high in flammable content)
strike anywhere matches

open the disk carefully and cut the disk part nicely so most is gone, and place back inside to produce convincing view of disk. (make sure when slider opened you can still see disk.)

shave off all the heads of the matches, all the powder and bits, and then mix with nail varnish.

make sure nice and lumpy with match parts.

smother inside of disk completely.
stick back together.

place in drive.

then you take the disk and put it in the A: drive of the demo computers at department and electronics stores...very fun.

or pass it to your "friend" with some great "content" on it that you know (s)he'll love.

They'll never take me alive, I've got a bucketload of homeade explosives and a sawed-off shotgun. Bring it fuckers!

i'm finding in florida this is as believable a statement as it was in montana

our computer is so dead, i'd wish them luck trying to do something with it...

i have a laptop. the screw is missing for the hd door. it takes 3 sec to push down the clip and pull out the hd. i think its small enough i can swallow or stick up my ass in case its a super rush job.