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		jotm on Oct 5, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Autothysis SSD drives impede unauthorised access Do they check the internals of a laptop's hard drive nowadays? :-)

andrewchambers on Oct 5, 2014 [–]

chemical scans probably will detect it.

mnw21cam on Oct 6, 2014 | [–]

Chemical scans would probably be pretty hard-pressed to detect thermite, which is after all just aluminium and iron oxide powder. Even the magnesium starter is non-sniffable.

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