Dead on demand disk technology

On August 29, 2006 a patent request was made by Roger Detzler for an invention that instantaneously destroys the data contained on magnetic data storage media upon the occurrence of certain events.

Unauthorized access to data stored on magnetic media is prevented by destruction of the media with a reactant chemical. This approach may be initiated as a response to tampering or intentionally by using any one of several triggering interfaces rendering the data unrecoverable even to aggressive recovery procedures.

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