Re: Advice regarding servers and Wiping Drives after testing

[Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers <bugtraq () planetcobalt net>]

On 2007-09-01 gjgowey () tmo blackberry net wrote:
> A since pass with all zero's really won't protect your data from being
> recovered by more advanced data recovery software let alone alone
> hardware.

I'd like to see a single case where someone was able to recover data
from an overwritten harddisk, even after a single pass with zeroes.

> Multiple passes isn't much better, but if that's all you got...
>
> You would be better off looking at better utilities if you really need
> to keep the data from being recovered.

Nonsense. If you're worried about the zeroes just replace /dev/zero with
/dev/urandom. Your "better utilites" don't work any different from that.

Regards
Ansgar Wiechers
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