Here’s a good case of security taken to an unnecessary extreme. A government agency spent $2.75 million to destroy $170k of hardware because it was infected with malware. The malware apparently could have been removed with standard software methods, rather than destroying the hardware. The only thing that stopped them from destroying more hardware was that they ran out of money. Wow.
http://gizmodo.com/government-destroys-170k-of-hardware-in-absurd-effort-708412225