Securely Erasing Your iPhone or iPad with a Power Drill

Re:Securely Erasing Your iPhone or iPad with a Power Drill by AlbertCory on Monday May 01, 2023 @02:24PM (#35777003)

there are shredding services that can handle devices like phones, are there not?

Or the bench vise in your garage could crumple it up pretty well. Of course then you have to dispose of the wreckage.

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Re:Securely Erasing Your iPhone or iPad with a Power Drill by altairprime on Monday May 01, 2023 @03:43PM (#35778087)

A bench vise might not necessarily destroy the chip at all, unless care is taken to crush the chip itself from edge to edge somehow, or to flatten the chip itself to the point of small fragments — having separated it out from the rest of the phone, at which point drilling is easier.

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