Bart Bailey wrote:
> In Message-ID:<ULOdndHlrL9YrQzbnZ2dnUVZ_qjinZ2d@comcast.com> posted on
> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 14:45:25 -0400, Rick Merrill wrote: Begin
>
>> Jim Watt wrote:
>>> On Sun, 08 Jul 2007 12:04:26 +0100, Tim Jackson
>>> <tim@tim-jackson.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>>> Destruction is clearly visible. See http://www.tim-jackson.co.uk/cd.JPG
>
>>> 2. You do not need smoke or to melt the disks the beauty
>>> of the idea is that a short exposure causes the total
>>> destruction of the metallic film in the polycarbonate
>>> sandwich without affecting that.
>
>> I'd guess, but it's not enough for military security!
>
> I don't think there's enough forensic capability amongst the military
> (NSA) or whomever to recover a usable bit stream from a zapped disk

Oh, I agree with you, but can your or I convince 'them'?


> I keep an old analog Westinghouse relic for just such uses and after the
> first flash of 'lace lightning' occurs, (3-4 sec) no more is necessary.
> There's also a terrible toxic smell that permeates the chamber,
> so you wouldn't want to use your food prep oven for this purpose.

I got the same smell from a bag of popcorn I tried to reheat - only I
failed to observe that the bag was foil lined on the inside!!!