Emergency Destruction of Mobile Phones and Tablets
Seeing the popularity of the question of emergency destruction of devices, I would like to talk about the emergency destruction of mobile phones and tablets. So, we have: a hacker, a persistent knock on the door, masked people at the peephole. To be honest, hackers usually have doorbells in their apartments, and at the peephole, there will be a neighbor who will be asked for help, but we are interested in the reaction of a hacker who urgently needs to destroy their mobile.
Probably the first option that comes to mind is to throw the phone out of the window, but this method is known, and it works poorly. There are videos online of a hacker who acted similarly, though with a computer and flash drives, and it did not help him.
Another option that immediately comes to mind is to flush the devices down the toilet. Usually, this is done with money, but it is hardly possible to flush a smartphone down the toilet, let alone a tablet.
I also do not consider smashing it with a hammer. Modern smartphones are well protected from impacts, so with a high probability, you will not only fail to damage the disk with a small household hammer, but you might not even disable the phone.
Acid may also not yield results when it comes to a good smartphone. Here is a video that clearly demonstrates how difficult it can be to destroy a smartphone in acid.
Emergency Data Destruction Systems
I will tell you about three effective methods of destruction. The first method is electromagnetic complexes for data destruction. Here is what they look like:
When uninvited guests arrive, external hard drives, flash drives, tablets, and phones are placed in this box. The box is closed, the activation button is pressed, and then a sound signal will sound – and that's it. The devices no longer contain any information; now the hacker can go open the door before it is damaged with a crowbar or angle grinder.
Here is a video demonstration of how such a system works.
In this video, a computer hard drive is destroyed, but believe me, there is no difference between destroying a computer hard drive or a phone. The only thing is that destruction systems of this form, like in the video, are not suitable for the emergency destruction of a tablet; for that, a device like "Case," shown in the image above, is needed.