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Why did the poor old motherboard get a going over?
All the angle grinder stuff really is a bit of grandstanding.
One HDD seemed to have the top side of the top disc trashed; what about the rest of it?
Seems to me that they made a big show of the wrong bits.
In any case, if the GCHQ types had just carried out a format/overwrite/format that would have pretty much achieved THEIR aim.