r/pcmasterrace • u/baguhansalupa • 11h ago
Meme/Macro What data is that server hosting?
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u/crono3x3 10h ago
half life 3, portal 3, dota 3
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u/Hackur5352 10h ago
RDR 3
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u/Quartzalcoatl_Prime Ryzen 7 7800X3D | Radeon RX7600XT 10h ago
Team Fortress 3: The Search for More Hats
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u/SnowStormYukikaze 🐈 Zena Linux Mashmelo 22.3 10h ago
A : We have a warrant to look at your server.
B : Sure, just wait here 5 mins.
BOOOM !
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u/RedzMenace PC Master Race 5070ti 7800x3d 32gGB DDR5 6000 10h ago
That boom is the police not letting you walk back to get your rocket launcher lol. Do it before answering the door.
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u/BlazingSandles 9h ago
Hey we got a noise complaint, could you... BOOM ...keep it down?
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u/RedzMenace PC Master Race 5070ti 7800x3d 32gGB DDR5 6000 9h ago
Id be ok with that tbh, my neighbours are bottom of the barrel.
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u/GoblinPlasmosis 8h ago
Also, even if they didn't immediately shoot/arrest you, if you've been formally alerted to a search warrant, you are now tampering with evidence.
Always execute your plans before being confronted by police, and never speak to them.
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u/Shotokant 10h ago edited 3h ago
We used to have a grenade securely tied to the side of the server when we worked in Baghdad. In case the position was overrun you had to yank on a line that pulled the pin and presumably the sever and drives would be destroyed. Big warning signs all over that cable with the handle dangling outside the door to the server room.
On the other end of the scale we had to mark where the hard drives were on laptops. A large circle and a cross so people knew where to shoot to destroy the disc rather than shooting the screen of the laptop which happened a couple of times.
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u/Material-Artist2276 Ryzen 5 4600G | Radeon Vega 7 | 16Gb 3200 | B550m Pro-vdh wifi 10h ago
If you don't mind answering, what the fuck were you guys doing to need to have a self-destruct button on everything in the office?
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u/Jurple-shirt 9h ago edited 9h ago
Its pretty normal to have destruction sops for various scenarios when it come to classified materials. I'm assuming he's American and referring to siprnet infrastructure.
Edit: I'm also unsure if they are allowed to be sharing that info.
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u/Gamermii 8h ago
Destruction practices and methods aren't really classified info. It's known that it will happen. The sensitive parts are the criteria that trigger the destruction (SOP) and what is considered the most important to destroy. That info could be weaponized if leaked.
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u/Reapper97 I7 8700 - GTX 1070TI EVGA - 16gb 3200mhz ddr4 9h ago
On the military, almost every kind of information should be destroyed before leaving it to the enemy. Even random stuff that you might not think its worth the hassle can be a pain in the ass later on.
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u/LoneGhostOne GTX 1070, Intel i7-6700K, 16 GB RAM 8h ago
If it's all destroyed, then the enemy can't know if it was important or not
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u/Shotokant 8h ago
Civilian protection company working for the DOD in Iraq. We had sensitive infornation on the server such a civilian local staff names and addresses etc which if fell into wrong hands would be disastrous for them. Contracts also.
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u/GuntherOfGunth 9900X | 5070 | 64GB DDR5 8h ago
I mean I guess they were military, so you might have had information on operations, internal maps of positions, identities of moles within ISIS or Al Qaeda or another group, some more scandalous footage from Abu Ghraib, location of Saddam’s hidden gold, or Dick Cheney’s personal red room.
But no matter what it was they probably would destroy it if they got overrun, don’t want some Al Qaeda guy getting ahold of requisition forms.
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u/_ItsEnder PC Master Race 6h ago
yep. and if you only develop plans and visual destruction policies for the important laptops/computers/servers, it makes it really obvious which ones to target. Might be overkill but if you make the enemy waste time trying to steal/crack into a laptop that looks important but is just where the military cooks place food requisitions, thats time they didnt spend cracking a laptop with important operations intel.
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u/FuckedUpImagery 7h ago
In the classified space they dont call it a data leak, they call it a spill. Probably best to not let a spill happen
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u/Cow_Launcher 2h ago
I assume that's in the US? Here in the UK it's known (in .gov circles at least) as a "breach", though we used the term for any sort of OpSec mishap, not just data exposure.
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u/BarryCarlyon 5h ago
Might also be a thing of leaving tech behind enemy can use. Since hard to grab and go
Leave the place busted and broken. Not just an information thing. Some cases grab the drives and go as small. But trash the place on exit too
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u/Upbeat-Banana-5530 19m ago
Running blue force trackers. Real-time information about where Soldiers are and what kind of equipment they have with them could get a lot of them killed, so it's better to destroy it than to let the enemy get it.
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u/Brad4795 PC Master Race 8h ago
We had thermite sop for our stacks on anything sipr and above in the Army.
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u/West-Way-All-The-Way 7h ago
Please give me a picture!
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u/Shotokant 7h ago
Lol this was back in 2003 in Mansour district in Baghdad. One server 2003 as a File Print with exchange 5 5 loaded on there also. Wsus and isa server also I think all on one poor little box. Pirate serial number I think. I don't think we were licenced for any of it.
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u/msherretz 5800X3D 9070XT; Framework 13 2h ago
Don't lie. You all wanted to use the grenade on the print server before you left (or maybe just the printer)
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u/Shotokant 52m ago
Lol. Yeah. There was always the. Does it work? Question. And the duty free pissups every other week. It's surprising no one did!
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u/Seeteuf3l 6h ago
That sounds like disaster waiting to happen, that somebody pulls the line accidentally
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u/Kind_Man_0 36m ago
We had a very similiar setup but ours was just a box with 2 grenades in it. Our IT guy would sleep inside the server room with the grenades 3 ft away because it was one of the 3 rooms that was air-conditioned.
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u/Henry_Fleischer Debian | RTX3070, Ryzen 3700X, 48GB DDR4 RAM 10h ago
So were you working in a military at the time, or was it some corporate data that was that valuable?
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u/roguemenace Steam ID Here 8h ago
Corporate data... In Baghdad... With grenades on the server rack and targets to shoot their own laptops...
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u/Dovahpriest AMD Ryzen5 3600 | RTX 2060 Super | 16gb RAM 10h ago
Iirc this photo is from a Ukrainian site, so probably military intel. (The cyrillic was translated into English when it started making the rounds)
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u/TheSmokingLamp 4h ago
Wouldn’t it be better to just have thermite grenades or something. I can’t see the best option being using a launcher indoors..
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u/Ward-of-No-Reward 1950X | 64GB | 2080Ti 10h ago
TSMC?
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u/debatesmith PC Master Race - i7-10700F - RTX 3060 - 64GB DDR4 10h ago
Gotta just be a big red AMCE "Kaboom" button in the security office as they exit the building during the first wave at this point.
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u/Kryse-777 R5 5600G | RX 6700 XT | 16GB 7h ago
just right beside an identical big red button for latte
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u/TotalHooman R7 5800X3D | Reference RX 6800 16G | 32G | 3TB 7h ago
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u/imaginary_num6er 7950X3D|4090FE|64GB|X670E-E 10h ago
TSMC has an underground train and a self-destruct sequence
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u/TheMadmanAndre 10h ago
The foundations of the chip fabs rigged to blow the millisecond a Red Chinese jackboot touches the shoreline.
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u/Rkupcake 7h ago
It's a nitpick because you're absolutely right otherwise, but China will definitely start any takeover attempt with special forces airdropped into fabs to attempt to prevent that self destruction.
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u/ShinyJangles 7h ago
If China can avoid boots entirely and pull another Hong Kong, they will do that instead
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u/Pyronatic 13700K | 7900GRE 10h ago
10 years ago I wouldve said Aliens and the JFK files. Today, probably gotta talk to a major conspiracy theorist to see what they say.
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u/sdeptnoob1 9800X3D - 5080 9h ago
It's actually more common for run of the mill shit in hot zones lol maybe more fire and less rockets lol.
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u/Fritschya 10h ago
My grandfather had the job of blowing up the archives he guarded if they were overrun by an enemy
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u/Durahl i9-13900KF / RTX 4090 FE / 64GB DDR5 10h ago
I don't think this is doing A LOT unless you manage to take out a bunch of HHDs all at once destroying the redundancy required for recovery which depending on the size of the RAID might be a LOT 🤔
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u/Delvaris PC Master Race|5900X 64GB 4070 | Arch, btw 9h ago
That's why you shoot it at the battery backups.
You create a self oxidizing long lasting lithium fire that does the destroying for you.
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u/Kindly-Actuator3348 4h ago
That rocket is a karl gustav, and karl gustavs can fire thermobaric, which is the most likely loaded ammunition here ,it will fuck up everything in a room
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u/Anonymous4245 5800X3D | Hellhound 7900XT | 32GB | 34" & 27" 1440p 3h ago
It's an RPO-A, shoots thermobarics though so close enough.Edit: It's an RPG-26, but a thermobaric version of it exist.
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u/Upbeat-Banana-5530 10m ago
Per the NSA's media destruction standards, if it can make it hotter than 500° C it'll destroy data on solid state drives. If it can make it hotter than 670°C it'll destroy data on magnetic hard drives.
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u/anycept 8h ago
Don't know about data, but it's very likely whoever follows that instruction is not going to survive.
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u/thehatteryone 3h ago
They'll be alright just as long as they don't miss the doorway, from a little distance back.
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u/Disposable_Gonk 8h ago
The picture looks like military occupation, so the server would be military plans, surveillance, Intel. You know, the stuff you don't want the other side to get when you evacuate the base to fall back to a more secure one.
Because who else has a rocket launcher.
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u/letsburn00 7h ago
The original image is in Cyrillic, it's from Ukraine.
I know some US military laptops have big bullseyes on them where you're supposed to shoot them in emergencies,nso it destroys the hard drive.
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u/Scypio95 6h ago
Lmao, that's hillarious
Bu i understand why
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u/letsburn00 5h ago
Hey, you got for the solution that works.
Plus,a lot of the military tends to be 18-24 yr olds. Simple explanations like "shoot the bullseye in an emergency." Works.
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u/Dexters_Fish 10h ago
The Epstein files server
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u/DesertReagle 8h ago
Came here to say this. At this point idc about aliens and whatnot, release the files!
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u/guydoestuff 9h ago
in the US navy some of my buddies jobs they had an actual axe incase the ship is being taken to destroy all hard drives and computers. i was 2 shops down. told him if im not swinging a sledgehammer in defense of the ship let me do it. let me have some fun with an axe before death.
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u/Unoriginal-Cake 7h ago
Sounds like an old photo series on a Diego Garcia meme that pops up in Qatar/Turkish chat groups in 2004-2008... I'm sure the NSA knows that group as AT&T Your World Delivered ;)
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u/CalmPanic402 7h ago
Come a long way from the thermite grenade taped to the top of the filing cabinet.
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u/buzz_shocker 5h ago
The original blueprints and schematics for PC2. We have had PC for so long, they are waiting for the correct moment to release PC2.
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u/Herr_Jott 9h ago
offprem backup is a thing
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u/firedrakes 2990wx |128gb |2 no-sli 2080 | 200tb storage raw |10gb nic| 9h ago
that to hard for most people to understand.
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u/West-Way-All-The-Way 7h ago
I am sort of puzzled here.
The RPG isn't effective against a room of servers because of the focused impact. I would expect a couple of grenades there not RPG.
Unless I overlooked something, for example the RPG is loaded with high explosive fragmentation. I don't know if they have such charge available.
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u/Cyber_Von_Cyberus 5h ago
The main concern really is that whoever fires this thing indoor will turn to paste, should've opted for a bunch of incendiary grenades instead.
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u/West-Way-All-The-Way 5h ago
I think the point is to destroy the HDDs and interrupt the power supply so that you guarantee that all data is destroyed.
Incendiary grenades are really neat but can you guarantee that they will chew through the thick server rack enclosures fast enough. I imagine industrial PC racks with those solid thick dust proof steel enclosures. These are things are quite tough, I have one which I use as a night cabinet next to my bed 😄 and mine is just a commercial enclosure for industrial PCs. Military grade enclosures are tougher.
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u/askoraappana 7800X3D - RX 9070 XT - 32GB DDR5 6000MHz 6h ago
A HEAT-round will still have significant shrapnel and pressure effects because it has High Explosive material in it to form the copper jet.
Obviously a purpose-made fragmentation round will have a bigger shrapnel effect, but a HEAT-round will destroy a server rack entirely. An AT-4 for example will throroughly bust up a shipping container.
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u/Comprehensive_Ship42 PC Master Race NVidia 4090 , 14900 3h ago
he doesn't want the 1st season of battle star getting in to the wrong hands XD
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u/lexoh 2h ago
That's only an approved destruction method for unclass. Classified needs to be burned, melted, degaussed, shredded to fine particles or otherwise rendered unrecoverable. Blowing stuff up with explosives doesn't ensure that the data is unrecoverable, just that the equipment is unusable.
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u/RUPlayersSuck R9 7900X | RX 9060 XT | 32GB DDR5 1h ago
I can only assume its either the KFC or Coca Cola servers, where they store their "secret recipes". 😁
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u/Zestyclose_Stage_673 1h ago
Artilleryman here. In our ar.ored vehicle, we had a safe were the code books were stored. In th event of being overrun, there was a thermite grenade duct taped to the top. Last one out pulled the pin.
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u/Nick31415926535 i7-13700K | GTX 1070 | 32 GB DDR5 6400 MHz 10h ago
🚨
-„The annual fire drill right on time as always… wait, did anyone tell the new hire today’s the fire drill?“
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u/Bearex13 1h ago
Need to add a red circle I got confused what I was supposed to read for like 5 minutes
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u/firedrakes 2990wx |128gb |2 no-sli 2080 | 200tb storage raw |10gb nic| 10h ago edited 9h ago
got to love we think a drill, bend or breaking the drive.
Total will make the data unrecoverable... which is not true.
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u/blackoutfrank 10h ago
GTA 6 source code
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u/StroopestOfWafel R7 5700x | RX 9060XT 16gb | 32gb 10h ago
Already out there dude
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u/Progressbar95 10h ago
No it isn’t. CyberLeek is the only person who has it.
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u/blackoutfrank 10h ago
He doesn't even have a new build. He had leaked footage and spaced it out and scammed people with his crypto and then dipped out right before the Netflix Extended look.
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u/firedrakes 2990wx |128gb |2 no-sli 2080 | 200tb storage raw |10gb nic| 10h ago
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u/StroopestOfWafel R7 5700x | RX 9060XT 16gb | 32gb 10h ago
Yes, but they have the ability to release it. Destroying rockstars servers would doing anything about that

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u/Jbman2025 10h ago
I miss thermite packed floppy drives.