I'm responding to both Andres and Alan, because my answers are related.
On 2012-11-17 21:02, Andres Muniz wrote:
wow this shred stuff is really interesting. If i have EXT4 running on a
solid state drive (ssd), does it mean that doing a shred will significantly
reduce the life of the ssd?
It
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I'm responding to both Andres and Alan, because my answers are related.
On 2012-11-17 21:02, Andres Muniz wrote:
wow this shred stuff is really interesting. If i have EXT4 running on a
solid state drive (ssd), does it mean that doing a shred will
On 18/11/12 10:16, Tyler J. Wagner wrote:
On 2012-11-16 17:30, Alan Pope wrote:
More passes don't really give you any benefit. A simple single run of dd
is sufficient.
That depends against what you are trying to defend. It is possible, with
specialist tools, to recover data after a single
On 2012-11-18 20:26, Alan Pope wrote:
On 18/11/12 10:16, Tyler J. Wagner wrote:
That depends against what you are trying to defend. It is possible, with
specialist tools, to recover data after a single wipe.
People say that a lot. Prove it.
I love being proved wrong:
On 18/11/12 21:35, Tyler J. Wagner wrote:
https://www.anti-forensics.com/disk-wiping-one-pass-is-enough/
Ooh, handy link, thanks for that! :D
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On 16/11/12 17:00, Tyler J. Wagner wrote:
Only with shred you get useful progress output, and can optionally do
more passes with more secure data. shred is part of coreutils and is
included on all Ubuntu Live CDs.
More passes don't really give you any
I always use DBAN (Boot and Nuke) to securely delete a drive, remember
that deleting a user and adding a new one is by no means secure, the
next person who has it can easily use completely free recovery methods
to get back the data that was on that drive.
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On 16/11/12 13:55, Daniel Case wrote:
I always use DBAN (Boot and Nuke) to securely delete a drive, remember
that deleting a user and adding a new one is by no means secure, the
next person who has it can easily use completely free recovery methods
to get back the data that was on that drive.
On 16/11/12 14:55, Alan Pope wrote:
but then discovered dd'ing zeroes over it from a live CD was
sufficient, so I just do that from a live CD/USB now.
Can you expand on that for a newbie?
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On 2012-11-16 15:36, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
On 16/11/12 14:55, Alan Pope wrote:
but then discovered dd'ing zeroes over it from a live CD was sufficient,
so I just do that from a live CD/USB now.
Can you expand on that for a newbie?
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda
You might use bs=1M or
On 16/11/12 17:00, Tyler J. Wagner wrote:
On 2012-11-16 15:36, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
On 16/11/12 14:55, Alan Pope wrote:
but then discovered dd'ing zeroes over it from a live CD was sufficient,
so I just do that from a live CD/USB now.
Can you expand on that for a newbie?
dd
On 16/11/12 17:00, Tyler J. Wagner wrote:
Only with shred you get useful progress output, and can optionally do more
passes with more secure data. shred is part of coreutils and is included on
all Ubuntu Live CDs.
More passes don't really give you any benefit. A simple single run of dd
is
Supposing I have a netbook loaded with Xubuntu that I want to sell on
(shameless plug, eBay item 290811097220).
If it was running a Microsoft OS, I'd create a new user, remove the old one,
look around for and delete any data lurking in the root and find an app
(CCleaner for example) that'd do
On 2012-11-15 12:55, David Smith wrote:
Supposing I have a netbook loaded with Xubuntu that I want to sell on
(shameless plug, eBay item 290811097220).
If it was running a Microsoft OS, I'd create a new user, remove the old one,
look around for and delete any data lurking in the root and
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