On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Eric Jacobs <[email protected]> wrote: > Do you know how long it takes to do a seven-pass zero write to an array of > disks? It takes a LONG time. Even with a DBAN disk ready to fly, it would > take at least a day to go over a 1tb disk more than a few times. That is > PLENTY of time for the police to do a few hours of investigative work and get > a warrant. And if it does so happen that the data is all gone by the time the > police get there, then tough... they should work faster next time. Faster != > cutting corners
There are a lot of non-technical ways to destroy data besides seven-pass zero write. * Drill to the platters * Sledgehammer * Toss in a fire * Toss in a deep river/lake * Thermite (http://hackaday.com/2008/09/16/how-to-thermite-based-hard-drive-anti-forensic-destruction/) I personally doubt that anyone suspecting getting caught for child pornography would care about keeping their hardware functional. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
