The good news: you don’t have to erase that porn just yet. The bad news is that you’ll have to explain to your wife/gf exactly what that mechanical monstrosity is that you have next to the computer. According to Digi-Pro TV, it’s the Data-Killer, made in Japan and presented at the country’s 2012 Information Security Expo.
Simply put, the DMA-15000X is a device about the size of a small television set that’s designed specifically to kill everything on your hard drive. Made by Platform of Japan, it looks kind of like a microwave, and in certain ways acts a lot like one.
All the user need do is insert the hard drive on a tray, much like one would a TV dinner, and push a nifty little red button. Wait a few seconds, and — voila! — all your history is gone, forever.
We’ll spare you the technicalities, if only to explain that the way it works is through a simple re-alignment of magnetic fields on the hard drive. Data is stored according to a series of random magnetic alignments, and when the drive is inserted, a magnetic field re-aligns them all in one direction. The DK can also be used on floppy discs, recordable DVDs, and even camcorders. Since a vast majority of modern recording technology relies on magnetic alignments, this device could really come in handy for those with dubious browsing/recording histories. Give it a few years and you’ll probably be able to get one for way cheaper/smaller (though no word on when/if this thing will be mass-produced and brought over here).
On another note, it’s possibly worth considering whether/if this will somehow enable the criminals of society to commit certain deeds without fear of search and seizure. One can’t help but think, hey, what if Casey Anthony had procured one of these prior to her daughter’s death? She’s been acquitted, of course, but those pesky browser caches/histories did come back to bite her. Same with Brad Cooper, a North Carolina man who murdered his wife and also left a trail of Internet maps pointing to all the places he’d visited — including the same spot where his wife’s body was found.
Don’t get any ideas, of course — or at least hide any and all receipts/credit card purchases you might have received from Platform of Japan…
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