On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, savatage@mindspring.com wrote:
> From: steve szmidt <steve@szmidt.org>
> Sent: Jul 16, 2006 1:59 PM
>>
>> On Sunday 16 July 2006 13:49, Possum wrote:
>>> Thanks for all the suggestions; I'll give these utilities a try.
>>>
>>> Steve: I was thinking that dd might work, something like 'dd
>>> if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/hdx' then rm everything and reformat to clear
>>> it...does that make sense or would it be easier to use the other utilities?
>>> (that dban program chris mentioned looks pretty spiffy also)
>>>
>>> Again, thanks
>>> Possum
>>
>> Sorry, I don't have time to answer properly, must run.
>>
>> I would dd with all 0's and then again with all 1's before random.
> You can download utilities that will do a DOD wipe!!!!! Just put the program on a bootable floppy or a bootable cd
> It's also on the ultimate boot cd wich you can do a google on and download.
>
> I have ran this then ran ferensics and it will not recover.
A stock head-and-firmware inspection is as thorough as anyone can get,
right?
The data needs to be more expensive to recover than it's worth. How much is
it worth, how much data-recovery can you buy for that money, and how can you
cause enough data-obliteration to _need_ that much data recovery?
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