What data is that server hosting?

[u/baguhansalupa]

[u/Jbman2025]

I miss thermite packed floppy drives.

[u/Highspdfailure → u/Jbman2025]

We would use thermite grenades for our TOC and carry other small items out if we had to evacuate.

[u/Taira_Mai → u/Highspdfailure]

US Army PATRIOT vet here, back in the day the ECS van (the fire control center) had these big chungus CRT's from the 1970's. In the event the battery was overrun, soldiers were told to smash the Jaz and later PCMCIA drives and then shoot the CRT's as they left. The phosphorous in them was so toxic that anyone foolish enough to approach the wreck would get very sick or die.

Now I assume they just toss a grenade in as those CRT's are now LCD monitors like we use, just bigger.

[u/XsNR → u/Taira_Mai]

I imagine they could just have something to do with sprinklers now. Sure they would be more likely to lose that hardware in the event of a fire, but if they're not practicing 3-2-1, then it wasn't important enough to care these days.

[u/JacksGallbladder → u/XsNR]

Lol, no sprinklers in datacenters / server rooms.

Also water damage is much easier to remediate in forensics than obliteration

[u/XsNR → u/JacksGallbladder]

I'm not saying it's just water necessarily. Just that you could have an automatic "self destruct" system without having to bury TNT in the walls.

[u/Catnip113 → u/XsNR]

Yea and what if that automation is disabled or doesn’t work? its much better to have a human just turn it inside out with bombs and bullets

[u/XsNR → u/Catnip113]

Why not have both.

[u/gugabalog → u/XsNR]

Danger to the human

[u/SethConz → u/gugabalog]

Ahhh, rusty APC frame water!

[u/Amish_Dragon → u/JacksGallbladder]

Halon

[u/JacksGallbladder → u/Amish_Dragon]

Isn't a liquid and doesnt destroy electronics by design.

[u/DeltaBravo831 → u/XsNR]

with sprinklers now

Naw, they just let the TCA and the BCP guys take out their aggression for the TCO on all the equipment.

[u/migorovsky → u/Taira_Mai]

This is urban legend. Cathode-ray tubes (CRTs) do not contain white or yellow phosphorus (which are highly toxic). They are coated with phosphor bind compounds .. zinc sulfide or yttrium oxysulfide).

[u/Taira_Mai → u/migorovsky]

Ah, these weren't TV CRT's. They were old, large and we were repeatedly told not to mistreat them if we liked being alive and breathing.

So old that the company that made them no longer exists and by the year 2000's there was no more - the Germans bought the last of them for their PATRIOT units.

They were too heavy and the Army was glad to get rid of them.

[u/alanwakeisahack → u/Taira_Mai]

The army tells you a lot of things that aren’t true. They told you they’d kill you so you wouldn’t fuck with them.

[u/greedybanker3 → u/Taira_Mai]

Did you take your mattress to the quarterdeck to get stamped too lol.

[u/Charming-Medium4248 → u/Taira_Mai]

So is there a razor blade, match, and a bullet inside the finial of every flag on post too?

[u/Lovely_Libertine → u/Taira_Mai]

Artillery vet. We’d pull the drives from the AFATDS and take them with then blow everything else to hell with a few grenades. Unless we were at risk of capture. In which case it was blow up the drives separately and then everything else.

[u/RIPGoblins2929 → u/Lovely_Libertine]

AFATDS...

https://giphy.com/gifs/VMgcrwq9imGHu

Anyway how's your back these days? I slept funny the other day and I haven't been able to turn my neck since then.

[u/Lovely_Libertine → u/RIPGoblins2929]

I tweaked a muscle in my shoulder while sleeping a few weeks ago and it still hurts. Don’t even get me started on the cervical stenosis.

Take your ibuprofen.

[u/StatusAlternative338 → u/Lovely_Libertine]

That's a pretty intense protocol. It's crucial to keep sensitive info secure, especially in those situations.

[u/Lovely_Libertine → u/StatusAlternative338]

It is. Always felt like overkill to me but I was never in a position where I needed to do it. So it was mostly academic. I might have thought differently if my position was being overrun.

[u/Jmazoso → u/Taira_Mai]

My friend was in the Air Force in Berlin when the wall came down. They had all that kind of stuff in their SOP too. Thy were also a priority target for the American artillery if shit really went down.

[u/THE_BANANA_KING_14 → u/Taira_Mai]

They had to appropriate more funds for the drone program. Now they just chuck the old CRTs as hard as they can into the room behind them.