Hi,
I'm going to give away some old hard disks and I'm planning to
delete/overwrite all the data on them. Is there any tool to make this
automagically ?
Thanks.
Ed White wrote:
Hi,
I'm going to give away some old hard disks and I'm planning to
delete/overwrite all the data on them. Is there any tool to make this
automagically ?
Thanks.
dd if=/dev/zero of=DEVICE_you_want_to_erase
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On Wed, 1 Jun 2005 07:36:22 +0200, Ed White wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'm going to give away some old hard disks and I'm planning to
>delete/overwrite all the data on them. Is there any tool to make this
>automagically ?
>
>Thanks.
>
>
dd
>From the land "down under": Australia.
Do we look from up over?
The 'dd' way is good enough unless someone is willing to to tear the
drive apart in a lab.
Hi Anthony,
On 01/06/2005, at 4:01 PM, Anthony Roberts wrote:
The 'dd' way is good enough unless someone is willing to to tear the
drive apart in a lab.
I think this depends on how you use dd though. If you just do a single
pass of zeroes, but fear someone will mount a multi million dollar
el
On 6/1/05, Shane J Pearson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 01/06/2005, at 4:01 PM, Anthony Roberts wrote:
>>On 6/1/05, Ed White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> I'm going to give away some old hard disks and I'm planning to
>>> delete/overwrite all the data on them. Is there any tool to make this
>>>
If you are truly paranoid use DBAN, which is short for Darin's Boot and
Nuke. IMO it is the best disk wiping tool out there. It gives you a
couple different wiping methods to choose from, including the one used
by the US DoD. You can also specify how many passes it makes.
According to the
Shane J Pearson wrote:
> Hi Anthony,
>
> On 01/06/2005, at 4:01 PM, Anthony Roberts wrote:
>
>> The 'dd' way is good enough unless someone is willing to to tear the
>> drive apart in a lab.
>
> I think this depends on how you use dd though. If you just do a single
> pass of zeroes, but fear some
The military (at least in Sweden) bakes a Trotyl / Pentyl cake with
the drives as stuffing, don't know if that would change the magnetic
properties but most likely make the process of collecting/organizing
the pieces of the same drive quite labourious.
I read an article on encasing your drives wit
On Wednesday 01 June 2005 03:28 am, Matt Phillips wrote:
> If you are truly paranoid use DBAN, which is short for Darin's Boot and
> Nuke. IMO it is the best disk wiping tool out there. It gives you a
> couple different wiping methods to choose from, including the one used
> by the US DoD. You
On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Anthony Roberts wrote:
> The 'dd' way is good enough unless someone is willing to to tear the
> drive apart in a lab.
Items required for "sure fire" disk cleaning methodology.
qty. 1 hard drive to clean
qty. 1 high velocity military rifle
I usually use a .223 round, but other
On Wednesday 01 June 2005 08:06 am, Johan P. Lindstrvm wrote:
> The military (at least in Sweden) bakes a Trotyl / Pentyl cake with
> the drives as stuffing, don't know if that would change the magnetic
> properties but most likely make the process of collecting/organizing
> the pieces of the same
Thanks Tim!, that was the link I was grepping for at wikipedia, my
memory seems to be good but short... =)
On 6/1/05, Timothy Donahue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wednesday 01 June 2005 08:06 am, Johan P. Lindstrvm wrote:
> > The military (at least in Sweden) bakes a Trotyl / Pentyl cake with
Once information on a digital media has been overwritten, it cannot be
recreated/restored in any lab. All this talk about electron microscopes
and overwriting in multiple passes is just a load of crap derived from
an old DoD standard. It has no practical meaning. One overwrite is
enough. Please let
> Once information on a digital media has been overwritten, it cannot be
> recreated/restored in any lab. All this talk about electron microscopes
> and overwriting in multiple passes is just a load of crap derived from
> an old DoD standard. It has no practical meaning. One overwrite is
> enough.
On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Dennis Lindahl wrote:
> Once information on a digital media has been overwritten, it cannot be
> recreated/restored in any lab. All this talk about electron microscopes
> and overwriting in multiple passes is just a load of crap derived from
> an old DoD standard. It has no pra
why don't you try pissing on it. I can gurantee that everyone will
forget about reclaiming your super-secret data.Ever.
If you are overly-paranoid, as any OBSD user should be, you can try
the "heavier" solution which is definitely the(...)
Diana Eichert wrote:
On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Anthony Roberts wrote:
The 'dd' way is good enough unless someone is willing to to tear the
drive apart in a lab.
Items required for "sure fire" disk cleaning methodology.
qty. 1 hard drive to clean
qty. 1 high velocity military rifle
I usually
> That is not the case. On magnetic drives, the field can spread beyond
> the region
> written to by the drive heads, and can be read by a suitably equipped
> lab. Reports
> on how effective this is and what methods can be used to destroy the
data vary,
> but it's safe (or rather, it's necessary)
On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, Dennis Lindahl wrote:
SNIP
> Like I said, once the information _has_ been overwritten, it cannot be
> recovered in any lab. A fellow from IBAS said this during a seminar I
> attended recently. He even said it was a fundamental principle for all
> professional data recovery. If i
On 6/1/05, Diana Eichert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, Dennis Lindahl wrote:
> SNIP
> > Like I said, once the information _has_ been overwritten, it cannot be
> > recovered in any lab. A fellow from IBAS said this during a seminar I
> > attended recently. He even said it was a fu
Hi Dennis,
Quoting Dennis Lindahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Once information on a digital media has been overwritten, it cannot be
> recreated/restored in any lab. All this talk about electron microscopes
> and overwriting in multiple passes is just a load of crap derived from
> an old DoD standard.
> > Once information on a digital media has been overwritten, it cannot be
> > recreated/restored in any lab. All this talk about electron microscopes
> > and overwriting in multiple passes is just a load of crap derived from
> > an old DoD standard. It has no practical meaning. One overwrite is
>
Ed White wrote:
Hi,
I'm going to give away some old hard disks and I'm planning to
delete/overwrite all the data on them. Is there any tool to make this
automagically ?
Thanks.
Can't you just have the hole partition encrypted, I've never actually
encountered information about how to do
Baldur Sigurpsson wrote:
Ed White wrote:
Hi,
I'm going to give away some old hard disks and I'm planning to
delete/overwrite all the data on them. Is there any tool to make this
automagically ?
Thanks.
Can't you just have the hole partition encrypted, I've never actually
encountered i
The OP is donating old hard disks and wants to ensure his data is
non-recoverable. Why in the hell would he encrypt the disk before
giving it away? You and the next are way off topic. Someone stick a
fork in this thread; I think it's done.
- Matt
Baldur Sigurpsson wrote:
Ed White wrote:
Ed White wrote:
Hi,
I'm going to give away some old hard disks and I'm planning to
delete/overwrite all the data on them. Is there any tool to make this
automagically ?
badblocks -s -v -w
I usually keep a Knoppix CD around for this purpose, but its also
available in the e2fsprogs port.
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Subject: Re: howto clean disks ?
Ed White wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'm going to give away some old hard disks and I'm planning to
>delete/overwrite all the data on them. Is there any tool to make this
>automagically ?
>
>
badblocks -s -v
Diana Eichert wrote:
On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Anthony Roberts wrote:
The 'dd' way is good enough unless someone is willing to to tear the
drive apart in a lab.
Items required for "sure fire" disk cleaning methodology.
qty. 1 hard drive to clean
qty. 1 high velocity military rifle
I usually use
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 16:25:55 +1000
> To: misc@openbsd.org
> Subject: Re: howto clean disks ?
>
> Hi Anthony,
>
> On 01/06/2005, at 4:01 PM, Anthony Roberts wrote:
>
> > The 'dd' way is good e
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