After the overwhelming response to the Hackit we posted about automated hard drive destruction last fall, we finally decided to test out some thermite hard drive destruction ourselves. This has been ...

Thermites are a double-edged sword. Packing a tremendous energy density, and eager to produce tremendous heat when ignited, thermite is great for welding train tracks. But sometimes you might be ...

So the thought police are on their way to your underground control chamber, and you need to erase your hard drives fast. They can break the crypto on your secret docs, and even if you overwrite them ...

This flowerpot full of red powder looks pretty innocuous. But when ignited with a strip of magnesium and a blowtorch, it yields a molten metal so hot it keeps burning underwater. The red powder in ...