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"Flash shredders exist, too, but in order to be compliant the actual chips in their cases need to be broken. So what they produce is usually much finer grained, a “sand” of plastics and silicon."

For metal, chip credit cards I can't shred, I put them on a brick in the back yard, and torch them with a weed burner. There's a psychological bonus here, if for example Amex made me change cards through no choice of my own because they were hacked.

This wouldn't be "compliant" for a flash drive, but it would be effective.




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