On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 08:18:28AM -0800, Jared C. Lovell wrote: > C'mon kids, why waste money just to destroy data? It's easier than all > that. Drop disk in question in a free unix box, then: > > dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/daWhateverdisk > > If you're really paranoid, put it in a while true, run it all night. It > takes longer than a blowtourch but get the drive just as hot and > delicious without the open flame.
while sleep 1; for i in zero urandom ; do dd if=/dev/$i of=/dev/hda done done This will kill it, second only to a blowtorch. The government has apparently found that with todays high capacity disks, even drive ground into shards Have enough data on the pieces to be able to recontrust significant parts of files. The blowtorch can make the magnetic surface lost its abilitiy to hold a charge. Ain't science cool? Tom's Root Boot probably has dd on it, so you can just boot from the floppy, type the script into a root shell, and go. You don't even need to pull the drive. Hell, if you're doing it to a bunch of machines, you can change an init script to do this on boot-up. Just don't leave it in the floppy drive of your desktop after you make it. :-) Rob
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