Hello again Bill,
If you want to really mess with the folks that might use electron
microscopy recovery techniques, in between the (write 1s then secure
delete) and the (write 0s then secure delete) write another really big
file that is mostly random characters but has several differing pages
of deadly dull, very dry text mixed in with it at judicious intervals.
Heh, heh.
Jerry
On Jul 04, 2004, at 2:41 PM, Bill Rising wrote:
> On Jul 4, 2004, at 13:28, Jerry Yeager wrote:
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>> Hello Bill,
>>
>> This may be a bit extreme but ...
>>
>> Mount them in an external enclosure, write and run a quickie PERL
>> script that opens a file fill it full of 1s (via 0xFFFFFF), close
>> file when drive is full, use Panther's Secure Delete (time-taker on
>> this thing). Repeat with 0x000000 and Secure Delete. Do this a few
>> times and you should be safe except from electron microscopy recovery
>> schemes.
>>
>
> Yeah, that seems a bit extreme. I need an *easy* solution!
>
> Bill
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