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Alex Schuster wrote: |
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> Dale writes: |
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>> I have seen where people use dd to do this sort of thing to. I read |
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>> somewhere that if you do a dd and put in all 1's, then all 0's then back |
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>> again that it is very hard to get any data back off the drive. I think |
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>> if you do it like over a dozen times, it is deemed impossible to get |
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>> anything back. I think that is the Government standard of it's gone. |
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> There's no need for multiple passes of dd with different values. |
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> http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Secure-deletion-a-single-overwrite-will-do-it-739699.html |
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> Wonko |
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I wonder what some Government org like NSA would think about this? Then |
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again, they may want us to believe this so they can get stuff back. |
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;-) ;-) |
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That said, I always wondered how something can be there when it is |
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erased. On paper, I can see that because it made a physical change to |
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the paper but on magnetic media, it is magnetic not physical. |
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Anyway. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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