There was just a issue raised on the local TV station last week about this
very topic, concerning Government HD's that were going to surplus sales and
the safety of information that was previously on the drives.
The conclusion of the story was that in order to be completely safe, the
drive has to
on 11/23/02 12:57 AM, Laurent Daudelin at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Folks,
Can we move on to something more important? That thread is not leading
anywhere.
Come on, those are not the droids you're looking for.
-Laurent.
G-Books list nanny
Sorry Laurent, I sent my reply before I read
On 11/23/02 6:51 AM, Thomas Ethen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the
Cybertrough:
There was just a issue raised on the local TV station last week about this
very topic, concerning Government HD's that were going to surplus sales and
the safety of information that was previously on the drives.
On 11/23/02 6:53 AM, Thomas Ethen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the
Cybertrough:
on 11/23/02 12:57 AM, Laurent Daudelin at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Folks,
Can we move on to something more important? That thread is not leading
anywhere.
Come on, those are not the droids you're looking
Thank You Obi Wan and Laurent .. :-)
Keith Ronan
On 11/23/02 3:32 PM, Obi-Wan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 11/23/02 6:53 AM, Thomas Ethen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the
Cybertrough:
on 11/23/02 12:57 AM, Laurent Daudelin at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Folks,
Can we move on to
On Saturday, November 23, 2002, at 02:19 AM, Obi-Wan wrote:
I am not saying that this thread, or your concern, is invalid... or
even
that your question is invalid. What I am saying is that you are not
EVER
guaranteed safety of data without destroying the drive...basically.
OK Obi-Wan,
On Saturday, November 23, 2002, at 02:30 PM, Obi-Wan wrote:
There was just a issue raised on the local TV station last week about
this
very topic, concerning Government HD's that were going to surplus
sales and
the safety of information that was previously on the drives.
The conclusion
Aladdin Systems, maker of Stuffit has a product called Secure Delete.
Does anyone have personal or experiential knowledge about this product's
efficiency?
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On Thursday, Nov 21, 2002, at 21:04 US/Alaska, Obi-Wan wrote:
They are licensed and bonded. None of your data will be shared, and
if you
feel so strongly about it then you better not go to an ATM in public,
or use
a VISA card a a store, or appear on a security camera, or (heaven
forbid)
get
Folks,
Can we move on to something more important? That thread is not leading
anywhere.
Come on, those are not the droids you're looking for.
-Laurent.
G-Books list nanny
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Mike and others thank you for the information, it has been a good
education, this link leads to more info on Secure Data if anyone is
interested. It is nice when people help
http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0204/09.securedelete.php
Geoff
On Wednesday, Nov 20, 2002, at 22:38 US/Alaska,
Any debate on Toshiba v IBM is like Coke v Pepsi. It was in fact
Transinternational who advised the IBM 40GNX was better than the
Toshiba, a view I agreed with after my research fwiw. As for Trans, It
in fact has taken 3 phone calls and a e-mail on 4 different days to get
a RMA from Trans.
On 11/21/02 5:37 PM, Geoffrey Loeffler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the
Cybertrough:
Any debate on Toshiba v IBM is like Coke v Pepsi. It was in fact
Transinternational who advised the IBM 40GNX was better than the
Toshiba, a view I agreed with after my research fwiw. As for Trans, It
in fact
What's the best way to completely wipe just the free space on your hard
disk?
I have PGP 7.0 but it's Free Space Wiper tells me that it can't wipe the
free space because the volume integrity check failed and that the volume may
be damaged. Disk First Aid doesn't however discover anything amiss.
This thread has been very interesting, and I thank all who have
helped. So really there is no way to safely protect the information I
have on this month old drive. It holds multiple online bank account
numbers, passwords, 3 stock accounts, passwords and similar personal
and company
On 11/20/02 9:56 PM, Geoffrey Loeffler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the
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This thread has been very interesting, and I thank all who have
helped. So really there is no way to safely protect the information I
have on this month old drive. It holds multiple online bank account
Aladdin Systems, maker of Stuffit has a product called Secure Delete.
This is from their web page:
http://www.aladdinsys.com/secure_delete/index.html
Secure DeleteĀ is like a paper shredder for your computer files. If
Various listas wrote:
Select the option to zero the drive. That not only releases the
directory entries, but writes zeroes to the entire data portion of
the disk.
I thought I read somewhere that this option was not well supported
with IDE drives, so that may work or not. The best thing to do
On 11/18/02 8:10 PM, Geoffrey Loeffler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have to send my 40 GNX back to trans intl, very loud and clicking
sounds coming out of it right from the start and continued for last 30
days. I need to wipe this drive clean, really clean.
How clean is that? In other words,
On 11/19/02 12:27 PM, Dan K [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the
Cybertrough:
Ah, but Obi-Wan Kyle, what does it take to actually retrieve 'real' data
from a zeroed-once (or twice or thrice) drive? Is there a practical way
to do it without going through a pretty serious HW recovery effort? I
Obi-Wan wrote:
All I am saying is that there is no real safe
way to be sure that your data is 100% unrecoverable, which is what the
person was asking. That's all.
Well, there is, but you'll lose out on the trade-in value: an industrial
shredder will pretty well take care of any data
On 11/19/02 3:54 PM, Bruce Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew
into the Cybertrough:
Obi-Wan wrote:
All I am saying is that there is no real safe
way to be sure that your data is 100% unrecoverable, which is what the
person was asking. That's all.
Well, there is, but you'll lose out on the
I have to send my 40 GNX back to trans intl, very loud and clicking
sounds coming out of it right from the start and continued for last 30
days. I need to wipe this drive clean, really clean. Will apples disk
utility on 10.2 wipe it so no info will be able to be recovered or
seen. If not
In a message dated 11/18/2002 9:10:40 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
I need to wipe this drive clean, really clean. Will apples disk
utility on 10.2 wipe it so no info will be able to be
recovered or
seen. If not what is best way delete the data I have on it.
When
On Monday, November 18, 2002, at 08:10 PM, Geoffrey Loeffler wrote:
I have to send my 40 GNX back to trans intl, very loud and clicking
sounds coming out of it right from the start and continued for last 30
days. I need to wipe this drive clean, really clean. Will apples disk
utility on
on 18/11/02 22:42, John Haumann at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Monday, November 18, 2002, at 08:10 PM, Geoffrey Loeffler wrote:
I have to send my 40 GNX back to trans intl, very loud and clicking
sounds coming out of it right from the start and continued for last 30
days. I need to wipe
: wiping hard drive clean
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aunch.com
On 11/18/02 7:19 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the
Cybertrough:
In a message dated 11/18/2002 9:10:40 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I need to wipe this drive clean, really clean. Will apples disk
utility on 10.2 wipe it so no info will be able to
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In a message dated 11/18/2002 9:10:40 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I need to wipe this drive clean, really clean. Will apples disk
utility on 10.2 wipe it so no info will be able to be
recovered or
seen. If not what is best
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