Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting: Embedded Perl with Federico

2013-04-12 Thread Tom Metro
Greg London wrote: ...it would seem to me that the right bit of hardware hooked directly to [the drive head] would be the best way to wipe a drive. If you drive random data onto the data wire and slowly work the head from the inside to the outside track, you would wipe out formatting data,

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting: Embedded Perl with Federico

2013-04-11 Thread Federico Lucifredi
On Apr 11, 2013, at 12:02 AM, Bob Rogers rogers-...@rgrjr.dyndns.org wrote: From: Greg Londonem...@greglondon.com Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 23:18:12 -0400 I have no idea what the signaling looks like on that 4wire connector between the platters and controller electronics, but it would

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting: Embedded Perl with Federico

2013-04-11 Thread Bob Rogers
From: Greg London em...@greglondon.com Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 23:14:20 -0500 There's a simpler way to do this: Sandpaper. I think the exercise was akin to lockpicking: yes a crowbar will do the same job, but that wasn't the point. Can it be done without physical

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting: Embedded Perl with Federico

2013-04-10 Thread Tom Metro
Federico Lucifredi continues his quest to build a hardware-assisted automagic hard-drive wiper, using perl in an embedded device. Federico, You showed some slides explaining why drive erasure is important, and also mentioned that this task isn't a job responsibility, but you never quite

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting: Embedded Perl with Federico

2013-04-10 Thread Bill Ricker
Notes on Disk technology history, erasure, and those half-mile 3D laser scanners. Half mile 3d laser scanner http://www.theverge.com/2013/4/9/4204582/new-3d-laser-scanner-can-capture-objects-over-half-a-mile-away *Security Now* 384 | TWiT.TV

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting: Embedded Perl with Federico

2013-04-10 Thread Greg London
the platters. Connected by DROID on Verizon Wireless -Original message- From: Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com To: Boston PM Boston-pm@mail.pm.org Sent: 2013 Apr, Thu, 11 00:28:50 GMT+00:00 Subject: Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting: Embedded Perl with Federico Notes on Disk technology history