-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 coderman wrote: > apologies in advance for veering this far off topic... > > On Dec 2, 2007 2:25 PM, F. Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> [ strange, dangerous, and likely to fail methods for destroying drives ] > > use full disk encryption, even the latest ubuntu supports this. > > destroy the disk keys and you've got platters full of entropy. > > anything else is just a bad idea. > (snip)
I don't think much of the aforementioned physical "destruction" methods; I also agree in that full disk encryption is the best way to go, if at all possible. However, given that a system has already been deployed without such encryption, wouldn't secure overwriting be a reasonable way of destroying such data? It'd be slow, and maybe not effective against the most determined (and well-funded) attackers - but at least it wouldn't be dangerous, weird, and violent... =:oD - -- F. Fox CompTIA A+, Net+, Security+ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHU2HfbgkxCAzYBCMRAj0dAJ92NHfJqZVVcK/u99gbWTo0jsSnFACeOSJW EmV8OG+cGBSMlWBGXfqvh1M= =hc2d -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----