This Self-Destructing Phone Will Keep Your Secrets Safe Forever

New York Post ^ | February 10, 2017 | Mike Wehner

[nickcarraway]

The idea of a self-destructing phone is usually something you only encounter in goofy spy movies, but it’s actually a potentially valuable invention that could aid in security for high profile individuals. A team of researchers in Saudi Arabia have built a prototype of a self-destructing gadget for the real world that can completely destroy a device in as little as ten seconds, and can be programmed to automatically trigger itself under certain conditions.

The mechanism works by channeling the power from the device’s battery into electrodes that rapidly heat, triggering the release and expansion of a special polymer that quickly expands and crushes the processor of the device.

[dp0622]

I had to take pictures as part of my weight loss program for a doctor I was seeing (not surgery)

I wouldn’t pay blackmail to keep them off the internet, but it wouldn’t be my proudest day!!

Glad we had this conversation. I’ll go delete them!! :)

[House Atreides]

Samsung has already perfected the self-destroying smart phone.

They may even have patents on it.

[Mr. Jeeves]

FAX everything. It could save your life. :)

[upchuck]

The mechanism works by channeling the power from the device’s battery into electrodes that rapidly heat, triggering the release and expansion of a special polymer that quickly expands and crushes the processor of the device.

To heck with the processor. The memory needs to be destroyed. That's where all the data is stored.

[Excellence]

Some phones give access to the user’s cloud storage. Can’t remember who it was, but some actress had her cloud accessed and it had nude pictures on it. Phones aren’t simple anymore.

[Pollster1]

The Israelis built at least one for Muslim terrorists. The phone worked.

[Riley]

Lol! I think that was what I was thinking, but couldn’t exactly remember: “This tape will self-destruct in 30 seconds...”

"Wait wait wait I'm still jotting stuff down!" LOL

I used to test myself to see if I could remember the details from the mission tape, five minutes later. Probably a good thing that I never became a spy.

[Sirius Lee]

[zzwhale]

made in saudi arabia

yeah here is how it workls...

it connects to 15 lbs of cemex in a belt you wrap around your waist
and is controlled by your saudi handler

[a fool in paradise]

A team of researchers in Saudi Arabia have built a prototype of a self-destructing gadget for the real world that can completely destroy a device in as little as ten seconds, and can be programmed to automatically trigger itself under certain conditions. The mechanism works by channeling the power from the device’s battery into electrodes that rapidly heat, triggering

"Breeeng Breeeeng BOOM!"

The Saudis are not our friends and neither are their agents.