[ILUG] Wipe the Hard disk

[Ewan Oughton]

Thermite works well for such things, apparently.





Ewan Oughton B.Sc. Comp Sys
DB / AnonFTP / Orac Root Admin SkyNet


On Wed, 27 Jun 2007, Jeroen Massar wrote:

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> Michael Watterson wrote:
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>> It does take long to do it right.
>>
>> If you are reusing yourself, don't bother.
>>
>> If dumping, use an Angle Grinder or join local gun club (fun target
>> practice).
>>
>> If giving a disk with important stuff to 3rd party, I'd be very unhappy
>> if 40G didn't take about 4 times the time to write 40G at least.
>
> With the price and reliability of todays disks, I would opt for letting
> the other party get a new disk and simply using the old disk as target
> practice ;)
>
> 8x seems to be the norm nowadays from what I understood for 'correctly'
> wiping a disk. And then still apparently some companies can recover bits
> of the disk which you wished where not there.
>
> As such, even when using it as target practice, you might want to end
> with trying out if that old M1A1 from WWII still works, which should
> make sure that nobody can't recover any more data from your disk :)
>
> Greets,
> Jeroen
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