On 8 May 2001, Dr. Evil wrote:
> This may not be quite the right forum to ask, but I'm not sure where
> else to ask...
>
> Are there some disk wiping programs for Linux, which overwrite all
> data on a disk a few times, so it can't be recovered? Ideally, this
> should be an option on the mkfs command, like mkfs -w /dev/hda1. mkfs
> has a -c option, but that doesn't do it, I think.
Recovered how? Via a utility or perhaps a simple scan maybe, recent tech
improvement in STM technology makes any wipe-and-forget technique pretty
worthless. You can check the Cypherpunks archives for the last couple of
months for a URL.
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