Re: [CentOS] OT: hardware: sanitizing a dead SSD?

2018-05-11 Thread James B. Byrne
On Thu, May 10, 2018 12:00, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > > > On the other hand... static, and unchanging, right, and how many > minutes of Amazon S3 will it take to break the encryption? None. If it is NSA certified there will be a backdoor. -- *** e-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel

Re: [CentOS] OT: hardware: sanitizing a dead SSD?

2018-05-10 Thread m . roth
Sean wrote: > Probably too late for consideration at this point, but there are > Enterprise Class SSDs available with DoD/NSA certified/approved self encryption > capability. The concept is that encryption is a hardware feature of the > drive, when you want to dispose of it, you throw away the

Re: [CentOS] OT: hardware: sanitizing a dead SSD?

2018-05-10 Thread Sean
5-cent.us > To: CentOS mailing list <centos@centos.org> > Cc: > Bcc: > Date: Wed, 9 May 2018 11:35:21 -0400 > Subject: Re: [CentOS] OT: hardware: sanitizing a dead SSD? > James Szinger wrote: > > Disclaimer: My $dayjob is with a government contractor, but I am speakin

Re: [CentOS] OT: hardware: sanitizing a dead SSD?

2018-05-09 Thread Fred Smith
On Wed, May 09, 2018 at 09:46:30AM -0400, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On 9 May 2018 at 07:18, Pete Biggs wrote: > > On Wed, 2018-05-09 at 13:00 +0200, Leon Fauster wrote: > >> > Am 08.05.2018 um 21:46 schrieb Stephen John Smoogen : > >> > > >> > On 8 May

Re: [CentOS] OT: hardware: sanitizing a dead SSD?

2018-05-09 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 9 May 2018 at 11:52, John Hodrien wrote: > On Wed, 9 May 2018, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > >> Federal contractor here, too. (I'm the OP). For disks that work, shred or >> DBAN is what we use. For dead disks, we do the paperwork, and get them >> deGaussed. SSD's are a

Re: [CentOS] OT: hardware: sanitizing a dead SSD?

2018-05-09 Thread John Hodrien
On Wed, 9 May 2018, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Federal contractor here, too. (I'm the OP). For disks that work, shred or DBAN is what we use. For dead disks, we do the paperwork, and get them deGaussed. SSD's are a brand new issue. We haven't had to deal with them yet, but it's surely coming, so

Re: [CentOS] OT: hardware: sanitizing a dead SSD?

2018-05-09 Thread m . roth
James Szinger wrote: > Disclaimer: My $dayjob is with a government contractor, but I am speaking > as private citizen. > > Talk to your organization's computer security people. They will have a > standard procedure for getting rid of dead disks. We on the internet > can't > know what they are.

Re: [CentOS] OT: hardware: sanitizing a dead SSD?

2018-05-09 Thread James Szinger
Disclaimer: My $dayjob is with a government contractor, but I am speaking as private citizen. Talk to your organization's computer security people. They will have a standard procedure for getting rid of dead disks. We on the internet can't know what they are. I'm betting it involves some

Re: [CentOS] OT: hardware: sanitizing a dead SSD?

2018-05-09 Thread Mauricio Tavares
On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 9:46 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On 9 May 2018 at 07:18, Pete Biggs wrote: >> On Wed, 2018-05-09 at 13:00 +0200, Leon Fauster wrote: >>> > Am 08.05.2018 um 21:46 schrieb Stephen John Smoogen : >>> > >>> > On 8

Re: [CentOS] OT: hardware: sanitizing a dead SSD?

2018-05-09 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 9 May 2018 at 07:18, Pete Biggs wrote: > On Wed, 2018-05-09 at 13:00 +0200, Leon Fauster wrote: >> > Am 08.05.2018 um 21:46 schrieb Stephen John Smoogen : >> > >> > On 8 May 2018 at 15:34, wrote: >> > > Anyone have any clues about how to

Re: [CentOS] OT: hardware: sanitizing a dead SSD?

2018-05-09 Thread Pete Biggs
On Wed, 2018-05-09 at 13:00 +0200, Leon Fauster wrote: > > Am 08.05.2018 um 21:46 schrieb Stephen John Smoogen : > > > > On 8 May 2018 at 15:34, wrote: > > > Anyone have any clues about how to sanitize a dead SSD? We haven't had it > > > yet, but we're sure

Re: [CentOS] OT: hardware: sanitizing a dead SSD?

2018-05-09 Thread rainer
Am 2018-05-09 13:00, schrieb Leon Fauster: Am 08.05.2018 um 21:46 schrieb Stephen John Smoogen : On 8 May 2018 at 15:34, wrote: Anyone have any clues about how to sanitize a dead SSD? We haven't had it yet, but we're sure it's coming. Esp. since I'm a

Re: [CentOS] OT: hardware: sanitizing a dead SSD?

2018-05-09 Thread Leon Fauster
> Am 08.05.2018 um 21:46 schrieb Stephen John Smoogen : > > On 8 May 2018 at 15:34, wrote: >> Anyone have any clues about how to sanitize a dead SSD? We haven't had it >> yet, but we're sure it's coming. Esp. since I'm a federal contractor, a >> dead disk

Re: [CentOS] OT: hardware: sanitizing a dead SSD?

2018-05-08 Thread fred roller
Like the others have mentioned, shredding is the best. Esp. since it is Federal. DoD spec only considers shredded destroyed afaik. SSD or not this was my normal practice for that same reason. HIH. Extreme is smelting the drive to molten but that is extremely sensitive data destruction. Fred

Re: [CentOS] OT: hardware: sanitizing a dead SSD?

2018-05-08 Thread Always Learning
On Tue, 2018-05-08 at 15:46 -0400, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > SSD disks must be shredded as the data has been written over multiple > sectors many times to 'even the writes'. This allows for even a 'dead' > disk to be disassembled with 'off-the-shelf' equipment to extract > items from the

Re: [CentOS] OT: hardware: sanitizing a dead SSD?

2018-05-08 Thread Rainer Duffner
> Am 08.05.2018 um 21:34 schrieb m.r...@5-cent.us: > > Anyone have any clues about how to sanitize a dead SSD? We haven't had it > yet, but we're sure it's coming. Esp. since I'm a federal contractor, a > dead disk gets deGaussed, but what the hell do you do with a SSD? > If you don’t want to

Re: [CentOS] OT: hardware: sanitizing a dead SSD?

2018-05-08 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 8 May 2018 at 15:34, wrote: > Anyone have any clues about how to sanitize a dead SSD? We haven't had it > yet, but we're sure it's coming. Esp. since I'm a federal contractor, a > dead disk gets deGaussed, but what the hell do you do with a SSD? > SSD disks must be shredded

Re: [CentOS] OT: hardware: sanitizing a dead SSD?

2018-05-08 Thread Albert McCann
> -Original Message- > From: CentOS [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of m.roth@5- > cent.us > Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2018 3:35 PM > To: CentOS <centos@centos.org> > Subject: [CentOS] OT: hardware: sanitizing a dead SSD? > > Anyone have any clue

Re: [CentOS] OT: hardware: sanitizing a dead SSD?

2018-05-08 Thread Tom Bishop
On Tue, May 8, 2018, 2:35 PM wrote: > Anyone have any clues about how to sanitize a dead SSD? We haven't had it > yet, but we're sure it's coming. Esp. since I'm a federal contractor, a > dead disk gets deGaussed, but what the hell do you do with a SSD? > >

[CentOS] OT: hardware: sanitizing a dead SSD?

2018-05-08 Thread m . roth
Anyone have any clues about how to sanitize a dead SSD? We haven't had it yet, but we're sure it's coming. Esp. since I'm a federal contractor, a dead disk gets deGaussed, but what the hell do you do with a SSD? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org