On March 26, 2008 11:50:59 pm Sam Clemens wrote:
Rikard Johnels wrote:
On Wednesday 26 March 2008 14:16, Jim Staunton wrote:
Hans defaber wrote:
What is the best (easiest) way to overwrite old harddisks with random garbage ?
Have a look at shred - 'man shred' will explain how to use it...
Jim
If you are to toss the drive: Use a 10 mm drill . Just make a couple of holes thru the whole case and you are done. Fast, secure and cheep...
I've done that procedure at work where a bank left some workstations to be disposed of. A nice 10 mm drill, redecorate the case to resemble a swiss cheese.. and presto! Nothing is getting of THAT drive in a hurry...
If the information is extremely secret, be sure to mutilate the surfaces of the disks. Otherwise, I can just take the platters to the drive's manufacturer, and have them put in side a case of another identical drive.
5 pound sledge hammer is also a useful device. Bonus: no electricity.
I have used DBAN with good effect. I have a friend who works for the government in an IT security shop, and the best tool that he has for recovering data from erased hard drives can't find anything usefull after DBAN is done with a drive. http://dban.sourceforge.net/ -- Jeremy Baker <jab@muskokatech.ca> GnuPGP fingerprint = EE66 AC49 E008 E09A 7A2A 0195 50EF 580B EDBB 95B6 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org