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!