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    • RojoLocoR
      RojoLoco
      last edited by

      Make a big EMP gun. One blast, all macbooks are done. Then replace with better hardware.

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      • MattSpellerM
        MattSpeller @RojoLoco
        last edited by

        @RojoLoco said in Quickest way to wipe 200+ Macbooks:

        Make a big EMP gun. One blast, all macbooks are done. Then replace with better hardware.

        http://hackaday.com/2016/10/12/become-very-unpopular-very-fast-with-this-diy-emp-generator/

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        • RamblingBipedR
          RamblingBiped
          last edited by RamblingBiped

          Thermite and a video camera.

          Or you could boot into a live disk of some sort and use DD to wipe the drive(s).

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dd_(Unix)#Disk_wipe

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          • RojoLocoR
            RojoLoco @MattSpeller
            last edited by

            @MattSpeller An easy-peasy way to rid your company of that poorly spent $500k.

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            • MattSpellerM
              MattSpeller
              last edited by MattSpeller

              On a more serious note

              http://degausser.com/hard-drive-erasers/

              edit: disregard, I thought they had one that you could just plop a laptop down on

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              • momurdaM
                momurda
                last edited by momurda

                Perhaps setup pxe boot with an image that has something to wipe them; something like others have said
                dd, think you would have to have a script run on boot to do this efficiently.
                dban in autonuke mode

                edit: do macs do pxe?

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                • DustinB3403D
                  DustinB3403
                  last edited by

                  A baseball bat would be faster. . .

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                  • jrcJ
                    jrc @DustinB3403
                    last edited by

                    @DustinB3403

                    Yeah, but the company that is buying them from us probably won't pay top dollar for them if they are beat to hell with a baseball bat.

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                    • RojoLocoR
                      RojoLoco @DustinB3403
                      last edited by

                      @DustinB3403 cricket bat....
                      0_1497558408798_shaunofthedeadbanner.jpg

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                      • jrcJ
                        jrc
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                        So i put the DBAN CD into a usb optical drive, and it does boot on these macbooks, and I can unplug it when it starts and move over to the next one. So it's working kind of like a thumb drive. So I guess that'll have to do.

                        Takes about 3 minutes of tech time to setup for each of them. Not too sure I could do any better with a different approach.

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                        • PenguinWranglerP
                          PenguinWrangler
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                          Fog project can wipe drives. If they can pxe boot you could do that.

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                          • DustinB3403D
                            DustinB3403 @PenguinWrangler
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                            @PenguinWrangler said in Quickest way to wipe 200+ Macbooks:

                            Fog project can wipe drives. If they can pxe boot you could do that.

                            They can PXE boot for sure, just need to have USB to Network adapters.

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                            • jrcJ
                              jrc @PenguinWrangler
                              last edited by

                              @PenguinWrangler

                              Yeah, deploy studio can too. However I am trying to avoid connecting them to the network and netbooting them due to the time it would take to set that up. The USB option just means plug in power and the USB optical and go.

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                              • DashrenderD
                                Dashrender @jrc
                                last edited by

                                @jrc said in Quickest way to wipe 200+ Macbooks:

                                @PenguinWrangler

                                Yeah, deploy studio can too. However I am trying to avoid connecting them to the network and netbooting them due to the time it would take to set that up. The USB option just means plug in power and the USB optical and go.

                                Over 200 macbooks, if it takes you one hour to set it up and only 1 min to boot each macbook, versus 3 mins with the portable DVD player, you'll still save a ton of time.

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                                • jrcJ
                                  jrc @Dashrender
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                                  @Dashrender

                                  Well yes, but it will take much longer than a minute to netboot the things. But more than that it would take longer to plug them into power, then plug them into a switch. And that would also seriously limit the number we can do at any one time to something like 16. USB drive means I can do as many as I can plug into power, which in here would be something like 50 at a time.

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                                  • RamblingBipedR
                                    RamblingBiped
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                                    Easiest way would be give the job to the Summer Interns and tell them to figure it out. If they do it manually... Well, it gets done. If they figure out a quicker automated way of doing it have them document it and give them a nice pat on the back.

                                    Either way, less of your time is wasted.

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                                    • DustinB3403D
                                      DustinB3403 @RamblingBiped
                                      last edited by

                                      @RamblingBiped I like the way you think.

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                                      • MattSpellerM
                                        MattSpeller @jrc
                                        last edited by

                                        @jrc said in Quickest way to wipe 200+ Macbooks:

                                        So i put the DBAN CD into a usb optical drive, and it does boot on these macbooks, and I can unplug it when it starts and move over to the next one. So it's working kind of like a thumb drive. So I guess that'll have to do.

                                        Takes about 3 minutes of tech time to setup for each of them. Not too sure I could do any better with a different approach.

                                        Burn a whole spindle of DBAN + the world's sketchiest power bar tree of death

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