On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 8:13 AM, Drew <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > Like the subject says, this pertains to data security, but not just on > linux/bsd/*nix. What I'd like to know is if anyone has a tool they prefer > for wiping hard drives in workstations. As we grow/upgrade systems, we > frequently have old systems we'd like to get rid of, but data security is a > concern. I would like to leave systems "usable" (ie not destroy or remove > the hard drive) but clean. Ideally, we're talking about a bootable CD that > has a utility that will format/overwrite/reformat/overwrite drives to a > point where there is a reasonable expectation that data that was on the > drive won't be able to be retrieved. So - favorites, recommendations? Input > on this being a pointless task because data can always be recovered? Thanks > for the input. >
Pretty much any bootable linux distro will do it as you can use DD or a lot of other tools to overwrite the data on the drive. If you actually want to a bootable that is designed for it, try http://www.dban.org/ (Darik's boot and nuke). I was going to reply with a link to this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIRXh2oiqtA but you said you didn't want to destroy the drives. As to the security of the wipe. All the data recovery companies have stated that overwriting the drive once with zeros pretty much makes it unrecoverable, though better safe than sorry, so do the secure seven alteranating wipe. Andy --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
