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Re: Hard Drive data security
From: Atom 'Smasher' <atom () suspicious org>
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 00:53:09 -0400 (EDT)
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers wrote:
Nope. What the both of you mean is: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda
=================AFAIK, writing all zeros (/dev/zero) or nulls (/dev/null) to a drive will stop *most* people from reading what was previously on the drive; but if you're concerned about an attacker with large resources it's best to make multiple wipes with random data or multiple blows with a sledgehammer.
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