[nflug] Wiping hard drive sensitive personal data

[joshj at linuxmail.org]

When we last left our adventurers...

> joshj at linuxmail.org wrote:
>>
>>  If you can boot it up with Linux (eg. sysresccd) you can do a:
>>
>>  dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdX
>>
>>  == or ==
>>
>>  dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/hdX
>>
>>  Note: these will take a while.
>>  use a few combinations of each for maximum effectiveness.
>>
>>  -Josh
>> 
>> 
> That is good, and also do a man on shred, if you wanted to leave the core OS. 
> Here's an excerpt:
>
> NAME
>      shred - overwrite a file to hide its contents, and optionally delete it
>
> SYNOPSIS
>       shred [OPTIONS] FILE [...]
>
> DESCRIPTION
>      Overwrite the specified FILE(s) repeatedly, in order to make it harder 
> for even very expensive hardware probing to recover the data.
>
> etc...

Cool. Last time I looked at shred it said that it was pretty much useless 
on journaled filesystems. But I see that's not the case anymore and that 
the date at the bottom of the man page is now Feb 2006. Sweet! Although it 
won't erase an entire harddrive, that's still awesome.

-Josh

>
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> Jesse Jarzynka
> Cyber Source
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