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Re: Pentagon Reverses Order to Destroy Old Hard Drives
From: Dave Dittrich <dittrich () cac washington edu>
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 16:11:05 -0700 (PDT)
The Pentagon will have to overwrite the hard drives of computers being donated or going to the public, which it had done for years before the January edict.
For anyone else considering implementing this policy, a co-worker of mine hacked together a nice bootable-floppy x86/IDE disk wiper he calls "autoclave". Its pretty slick, and supports many different levels of overwriting before zeroing out all the blocks. (Very nice to use when re-installing an OS, especially on a honeypot, to avoid data pollution.) http://staff.washington.edu/jdlarios/autoclave/ Have your employees run this before surplusing equipment and no more sensitive files get sold at rock bottom prices. -- Dave Dittrich Computing & Communications dittrich () cac washington edu University Computing Services http://staff.washington.edu/dittrich University of Washington PGP key http://staff.washington.edu/dittrich/pgpkey.txt Fingerprint FE 97 0C 57 08 43 F3 EB 49 A1 0C D0 8E 0C D0 BE C8 38 CC B5 ISN is hosted by SecurityFocus.com --- To unsubscribe email isn-unsubscribe () SecurityFocus com.
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