On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 5:33 PM, Kurt Buff <[email protected]> wrote: > Most likely a single pass with DBAN or a similar utility is all that's > needed to make disks secure.
It gets better. The only agencies who ever really cared about more than a single pass of zeros were government/defense/ types, for classified national security information, and many of those organizations aren't accepting software-based sanitization methods anymore. Physical destruction only. (The fact that some software makes reference to an obsolete DoD 5220.22-M from 1995 doesn't mean it's acceptable by today's government standards.) So multi-pass overwrite is overkill for most, and insufficient for the rest. :) -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
