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Can you break(ing bad) a modern laptop?

Dr. FunFrock
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Small spoilers for Breaking Bad if you still haven't seen it.

 

So we all know that scene where Walter and Jessie drive a van next to the evidence room with a big magnet in the back and they wipe the compromising laptop with that.

Of course, that would work on an old laptop with an HDD. HDDs are magnetic and people have demonstrated that you don't even need a very strong magnet to kill one. But what about SSDs, and the rest of the components in a modern laptop? I know that if you can generate an arbitrarily strong, magnetar-like magnetic field you're going to kill it, but how strong of a field and what kind of equipment would you need to do that?

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Curiosity or planning?

I enjoy buying junk and sinking more money than it's worth into it to make it less junk.

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21 minutes ago, aisle9 said:

Curiosity or planning?

I believe the police has pictures of my PC's cable management and I don't know the penalty but it's definitely criminal. 

 

No just curious

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