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

["Dan Ritter-2" <user=13@nabble.blu.org>]

 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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