Hi,
I was just laughing about how long a 35 pass would take, that's all.
I've used the 7 pass a few times.
If I were selling a drive or a computer, I'd certainly use the 35
pass just to have all those lovely 0s stacked all over the place.
Dan
On Aug 8, 2007, at 1:12 AM, Jane Lee wrote:
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
