On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 06:16:39PM -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote: > On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 17:27, Joseph Tate wrote: > > More secure (if you're paranoid). Military grade disk wiping does 3-5 > > passes of random data writing. Evidently some evidence still remains > > after writing a zero what its original value was. This evidence might > > not be legible by standard mechanisms, but if someone wants it badly > > enough could determine it. For handing a disk off to a friend, > > /dev/zero would probably be just fine. > > If you're paranoid, even this isn't going to be enough. Modern drives > regularly do bad sector remapping on the fly at the firmware level > before it ever gets to the OS. So if you've had any bad sectors on your > drive (and you do :), then there will still be data on those sectors > that can be recovered. > > Jeremy
Take off, and nuke the drive from orbit. It's the only way to be sure :-) Corey > > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
