[ale] dban??

[Jim Kinney]

dban is more than sufficient for nearly everything but 3 letter
government orgs and really, REALLY paranoid people.

A simple dd if=/dev/zero of=<drive> is sufficient for 99% of everything.

Lastly, you can write random crap until the drive is full. random.org
has a list of random number files that can be used to overwrite after
a zero write.

On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 8:39 AM, Geoffrey <lists at serioustechnology.com> wrote:
> Okay, so I'm cleaning up some old hardware before getting rid of it.
> Anyone care to comment on dban or other solutions for erasing the hard
> drives?  I don't want to destroy the hardware, just erase the data.  I'm
> not concerned with what the usual government 3 letter organizations can
> do, just your average cracker out in the wild.
>
>
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> Until later, Geoffrey
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