[nflug] Wiping hard drive sensitive personal data

[Jesse Jarzynka]

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...

-- 
Jesse Jarzynka
Cyber Source
http://www.jessejoe.com/
http://www.thecybersource.com/
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