To James, Dan, John etc. A zeroing out/7 pass/35 pass erase is all in the security options when you use disk utility to format any drive. By default OS X does not zero out anything..and almost all of the time even a 7-pass is overkill. Only maybe if you're going to be selling your computer might it be.
As to you, Dan...I believe it was an 80gb drive (not sure..switched drives too many times and still do), but I didn't time it. It takes a good while though, but I usually start these kinds of things when I'm about to go to sleep and leave it alone for the rest of the night. But honestly, Defcon network hostility is not an exaggeration by any means...like I said, there are a lot of people who bring no tech gear with them at all. John - yep, we seem be agree on everything. I wouldn't even consider using Windows there, Mac OS X and backtrack (a security-focused linux distro) only for me. But honestly, the only thing I was truly worried about was that some password I used for something would show up on the wall of sheep for everyone to see...something that could happen on any OS. cheers, jane On 8/7/07, James Austin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Jane, > > Could you give me instructions off-list if you prefer please on ho > to these things, such as a seven pass erase? > > Thank you > > James
