secure data erasing
Alvin Oga
alvin at Mail.Linux-Consulting.com
Wed Dec 7 17:11:43 PST 2005
hi ya jim
On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Jim Kavitsky wrote:
>
> Hi, Alvin. Are you going to be retaining possession of the disks, or do
> they have to go off site? I'm also curious as to why software erasure is
> not an option.
not my choice ( yet )
they want degaussing for whatever reason ... :-)
> Is it a matter of being too labor intensive for the
> number of devices that you have? The DoD has published data erasure
> standards for classified hard drives that specify bit patterns and
> number of passes required to eliminate residual data traces. Several of
> the software vendors out there claim to be DoD compliant, including this
> one:
>
> http://www.eraseyourharddrive.com
it doesn't need to be dod compliant
and if i was using sw to erase it, i'd just use dd if=/dev/random and loop
it 10x or something
c ya
alvin
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