DoD wipe, Norton Wipe, KO. Three passes for sensitive info. Seen KO and DoD used for higher than that.
And all three could have been the same program. They sure did look alike. No idea on price I can't find my link at the moment, but there used to be a link to a paper that went into painful detail how you could build your own -- oops!! found the link. Luck I remembered "Magnetic force scanning tunneling microscopy (STM)" Made the search pretty quick. This link tells you just how safe your old hard drive is. YOU have to determine how much effort YOU want to spend to be safe. If it was my hard drive with my excel spreadsheet of all my unreturned public library books (Which I do really intend to turn back in, some day when I return to the USA (Any lawyer types out there know the statute of limitations on overdue library books??)) I'd open the drive up and sand off the magnetic media with an electric sander, then use an 8 pound fine alignment tool (sledgehammer) to reduce it to shards. The link, for those that held out: http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec96/full_papers/gut mann/ When you read this, don't feel inferior. Uncle Peter Guttmann doesn't want you to feel that way; he's just oh so much more brilliant than most of us. I sure felt humbled. D. Weiss CCNA/MCSE/SSP2 -----Original Message----- From: Kevin Maute [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2002 4:29 PM To: Sadler, Connie J; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Unclassified Disk "Sanitizers" Connie, I found no (reasonably priced) utility when I looked at this about 2 years ago. I was an Air Force contractor at the time and had much the same problem that you (probably) do. My solution was to develop a Linux based solution to do this. The advantage of this was it supports both SCSI and IDE disks and doesn't care what OS/Data is on the disk. There was also a document that dictated that for your needs you needed 3 passes to "clear" the data and for more sensitive needs require 7 passes to "sanitize" the disk. Many people that are familiar with disk technologies feel this may not be enough but to do anything with the data that may still be on the disk requires fairly expensive hardware and lots of time... Kevin "Sadler, Connie J" wrote: > Does anyone have recommendations for freeware or shareware that effectively > erases disks for unclassified but sensitive information? This would be used > for all machines "retired" to school programs, etc. We need one for Windows > and one for UNIX, if one tool can't clean both types of disks. Anybody have > experience with this? > > Thank you! > > Connie -- +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ Kevin Maute Educating people on the avoidable carcinogens in their lives and how to replace them with safe, superior products. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ineways.com/kmaute http://www.newaysonline.com +--------------------------------------------------------------------+
