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The Physical and Logical Destruction of military SSD drive

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For military applications, data security concerns military secrets or even decides the outcome of the war. Especially in modern warfare, on the one hand, countries go all out to develop more advanced and safer electronic systems, and on the other hand, they try every means to decrypt each other’s systems. And yet, as the data medium, the hard disks try all encryption means to prevent being decrypted and meanwhile pay closely attention to quick erase or data destruction under various emergency environments. Initial news of a contract between IBM and DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Project Agency) asks IBM to develop a “new class of electronics that the computers, sensors and other network devices could disappear automatically based on the command”. When the commander sits in the command post with his feet up, he can just simply tap a button and the mobile phones, computers and all other devices in this controllable network could turn to ashes… While technically this is obvi...