Re: Erasing hard drives - Erase-O-Matic?

["Ben Holland" <user=122@nabble.blu.org>]

 I am almost sure thermite would void a warranty 



On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 2:52 PM, Dan Ritter <[hidden email]> wrote: 

> On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 11:45:53AM -0700, Kristian Erik Hermansen wrote: 
> > On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Tom Metro <[hidden email]> wrote: 
> > > If so, just dd /dev/random to the drive a couple of times and you're 
> good. 
> > 
> > See my previous note that this is merely popular myth.  One pass of 
> > /dev/zero is enough... 
> 
> It's enough if your adversary is going to hook up the disk to a 
> controller and try to get data out that way. 
> 
> If you have NSA problems, you may want to use something more 
> exotic... thermite works pretty quickly. 
> 
> I don't think there's much call for anything in between those 
> two levels of deletion. 
> 
> -dsr- 
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