[UFO Chicago] Hard drive question

[jordanb at hafd.org]

Jesse Becker said:
> --- wsl3 at lrsehosting.com wrote:
>>   Quick question - if you had a drive you wanted to wipe
>> for security
>> reasons, before the drive would pass out of your control,
>> what would you
>> use? I'm looking for something a little better than 'dd
>> -if=/dev/random
>> of=/dev/hda bs=512'. :-)
>
> Grab a copy of the UBCD (http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/),
> and boot off of it.  It has several secure deletion
> programs.
>
> Realistically, your dd invokation will be sufficient,
> unless you are worried about people with access to very
> expensive electron microscopes, and are clueful enough to
> magentic domain analysis.

Heh. Heh.

Well, according to Neil Stephenson you can read a CRT through
a wall with some tin foil and a perl script. ;)

If you're still feeling paranoid after the /dev/random thing
you could wave a speaker magnet over it.

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Jordan Bettis -- Chicago Il.
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-- 
Jordan Bettis -- Chicago Il.
  <http://neighborhoods.chicago.il.us>
    Photographs of Life in the Neighborhoods of Chicago
  <http://hafd.org/~jordanb/> Pretentious Weblog