[GRLUG] Data wiping / recovery / paranoia

[Michael Mol]

shred does more than fill the drive with zeros...It overwrites the
data multiple times, with data designed to remove latent magnetic
fields on drives using various (obsolete) low-level drive formats.

It still works better than, say, "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda", though.

On 9/15/06, Jorge La <weeneedhelp at gmail.com> wrote:
> ^yeah, "shred"
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> so woun't that be fool proof against recovery? because the whole hdd would
> be filled w/ 0s
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> On 9/15/06, Justin Denick < justin.denick at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > I think the name of the prog Jorge is thinking of is called "shred" You
> can even psecify how many time the data will be over written.
> >
> > But in the name of security, wouldn't Flah drives be the most secure an
> easiest to sanitize. With the size of theses drives now they can hold a
> pretty serious amount of Data.
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> > On 9/15/06, john-thomas richards < jtr at jrichards.org> wrote:
> > > On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 01:55:28AM -0400, Jorge La wrote:
> > > > ^at least you have this email to prove that you're not guilty
> > >
> > > Is *that* what it proves?
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