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,
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
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
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
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
the
platters.
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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