From: Alexander Skwar <listen@alexander.skwar.name>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Good command for wiping a hard drive?
Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2005 08:18:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <433E2A32.3020007@mid.email-server.info> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <433DAF69.5060700@asmallpond.org>
Richard Fish schrieb:
> A good option for more speed would be to use aespipe to encrypt
> /dev/zero and write that output to the disk.
Why do that? Overwritten data is already pretty much
irrecoverable. Or do you know of ONE instance, where
those rescue companies restored an OVERWRITTEN (ie.
not something simple as burned or such) drive?
And if you fear, that the CIA or FBI might recover
data - use a metal shredder...
Alexander Skwar
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Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-30 20:34 [gentoo-user] Good command for wiping a hard drive? Mark Knecht
2005-09-30 20:50 ` [gentoo-user] " Remy Blank
2005-09-30 21:11 ` Mark Knecht
2005-09-30 21:21 ` Martin Eisenhardt
2005-09-30 21:34 ` Richard Fish
2005-10-01 6:18 ` Alexander Skwar [this message]
2005-10-01 8:00 ` Jonathan Wright
2005-10-01 11:49 ` Alexander Skwar
2005-10-01 8:02 ` Uwe Thiem
2005-09-30 20:56 ` [gentoo-user] " Michael Crute
2005-09-30 21:10 ` Mark Shields
2005-09-30 21:13 ` Mark Shields
2005-09-30 21:19 ` Billy Holmes
2005-09-30 22:14 ` Oliver Friedrich
2005-09-30 22:17 ` fire-eyes
2005-09-30 22:45 ` Mark Knecht
2005-10-01 6:15 ` Alexander Skwar
2005-10-01 6:18 ` Brian Parish
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