What is the simplest way to destroy a mobile phone?

[tektek]

Stick it in the microwave?

[Tam]

remove sim card, memory card, factory reset, physically destroy, dismantle and remove memory chips

[spaceinator]

I vote FIRE! Just don't do it indoors as you could burn your house down.

[pebbles1]

Interesting fact- the US government has protocols for this and PC/laptop destruction as well. When a few years back China grabbed a US spy plane, the crew on board activated these protocols to destroy the onboard systems- like smashing the HDD platers.

But for the plebs, the government wants you to follow BAD advice.

1) Been using the phone as a phone? it's too late, your info was always being recorded on the networks you connected to. If they REALLY care about you, the NSA has all your details. A 'lesser' person of interest, and lower authorities still have access to all your messages, and location details (if your phone has power, GPS or no GPS, SIM or no-SIM, the phone location is tracked to within a meter every few seconds).

2) If you are a person of no interest, simply wanting no-one to have access to your piccys etc, then it's the chips on the circuit board you want to destroy. The US military use a hammer and a hard metal surface- so should you. A hammer blow should split open the phone, revealing the obvious circuit boards. Outside, wearing googles and probably a mask, pound all visible chips into somethiong like dust. That's the NSA protocol, and the military protocol. Anything less (like fire or microwave nonsense) would allow someone to remove the flash chip (memory), put it on a clean circuit board, and recover your data.

PS for many years, online NSA shills told the hard-of-thinking that erasing files on a HDD was a waste of time, cos the NSA had a 'magic' method for recovering magnetic data from the platter, and that because the heads don't have perfect alignment, your erase action left a circle of recording untouched.

This was an utter lie (think about it- if erasing by overwriting doesn't delete data, the capacity of your HDD has effectively DOUBLED. Erase again, and the capacity would have TRIPLED). The NSA actually paid PC utils companies to have delete functions that did not use data over-writing by default- cos that way the delete would happen hundreds of times faster (and the authorities could recover deleted data).

When Hilary Clinton erased her illegal server, her people went to the best, and used NSA protocol over-writing methods - the same method the NSA had shills in forums like this one tell you were a 'waste of time'.

Do NOT burn your phone, microwave it or drop it in water. None of these methods destroy the flash chips. Only the hammer method, as mandated by all high level US goverment security depts, gets the job done.

[anon]

PS for many years, online NSA shills told the hard-of-thinking that erasing files on a HDD was a waste of time, cos the NSA had a 'magic' method for recovering magnetic data from the platter, and that because the heads don't have perfect alignment, your erase action left a circle of recording untouched.

That's news to me. It seems a bit silly considering the NSA themselves publicly approved the ATA Secure Erase command, built-in to all mechanical hard disks made after 2001, and use it to delete their stuff. This feature does a single overwrite pass and that's all you need to permanently delete data.

https://tinyapps.org/docs/recovering...ard_drive.html

However, mobile phones use flash storage (the same kind used by SSDs and USB sticks), and sanitizing that is far from a solved problem, with no true solution at the moment. As you correctly pointed out, proper physical destruction is the only way. dd, cat /dev/urandom > file.bin, shred at al. are a compromise.

Good post, by the way. Looks like you're the only NZB downloader who hasn't turned to spam in these last few days.

[shaina]

That's news to me. It seems a bit silly considering the NSA themselves publicly approved the ATA Secure Erase command, built-in to all mechanical hard disks made after 2001, and use it to delete their stuff. This feature does a single overwrite pass and that's all you need to permanently delete data.

[megabyteme]

When I see 'destroy it with fire', I think of blowtorch. Would that not be sufficient? I physically destroyed a HDD from my first PC (this was a few years after its lifecycle was complete) due to concerns of old credit card info and other information that would have been long-forgotten/not realized would have been collected. And I have to say that damaging a HDD is *a lot* more work than one would think. I smashed, bent, scratched, dismantled, and swore at the thing for quite a while. That was after formatting and overwriting...

[shaina]

When I see 'destroy it with fire', I think of blowtorch. Would that not be sufficient? I physically destroyed a HDD from my first PC (this was a few years after its lifecycle was complete) due to concerns of old credit card info and other information that would have been long-forgotten/not realized would have been collected. And I have to say that damaging a HDD is *a lot* more work than one would think. I smashed, bent, scratched, dismantled, and swore at the thing for quite a while. That was after formatting and overwriting...

This looks like more fun

[shaina]

Hmmmmm

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[IdolEyes787]

Dress it like a Muslim and take it to an alt-right rally.