Giles Orr via talk wrote on 2024-03-23 07:50:
I have, for many years, used "Darik's Boot and Nuke" on a USB stick to
securely wipe spinning hard disks. It takes a long time, but I mostly
understand and trust the process.
I'm going to take a contrarian stance and suggest that the best way is
I grilled my local hardware security friend who said you should never trust
the secure delete feature in ssd . In general it has been found insecure.
As mentioned the "Large grinder" seems like the only way to be sure.
On Sat., Mar. 23, 2024, 10:50 Giles Orr via talk, wrote:
> I have, for many
| From: D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk
| Some disks have a feature where they have a key that encrypts every block.
| The key persists in the drive. But if you want to wipe the disk, you
| change this key. Then every block is nonsense until it is rewritten.
| I haven't got time to look up the
Ivan,
Your helpful link is very timely.
While clearing out stuff, I found two (2) long forgotten 1 TB external
USB hard drives.
So instead of buying a SATA hard drive to add to my Debian linux PC, to
achieve live boot root filesystem persistence, I'm going to try
following the
From academic papers: dd was found to work on local devices in article 1,
remote wiping of phones was found to be immature/buggy in 2.
1. Secure State Deletion: Testing the efficacy and integrity of secure
deletion tools on Solid State Drives, M Freeman, A Woodward -
ro.ecu.edu.au
On 2024-03-23 22:25, James Knott via talk wrote:
On 3/23/24 22:02, Anthony de Boer via talk wrote:
And on disposal, the golden standard has always been physical destruction.
I don't know if it's been mentioned, but what about the shred command?
Quite good for rotating magnetic drives that
