Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 16:10:39 -0600, Doug Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sunday 18 July 2004 11:52 am, Frank Gevaerts wrote: >> > On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 01:02:17PM -0400, H. S. wrote: >> > > I am in a situation where a computer is to be given away and prior to >> > > that it's hard disk needs to *thoroughly* cleaned (data consists of >> > > financial information, reports, class exams, competition exams, etc). >> > >> > Try http://dban.sourceforge.net/ >> >> I second this suggestion. DBAN (short for Darik's Boot n' Nuke will wipe your >> hard disk to the point where only the NSA has any hope of recovering data. > > I read an interesting article about data recovery and the approaches > that can be used. Specialist places have ultra-fine read heads that > can catch ghost images towards the edge of tracks; which your head may > have missed. I think this is only the tip of the iceberg. > > Without scaremongering, if the information you want to remove is of > such a critical nature that it must never be recovered no matter what > cost; you would have to destroy the drive.
If your opponents are able and willing to spend an /infinite/ amount of money to get at the data on the disk, it must be assumed that they already have it. They have likely already used various spying techniques. Martin -- ,--. Martin Dickopp, Dresden, Germany ,= ,-_-. =. / ,- ) http://www.zero-based.org/ ((_/)o o(\_)) \ `-' `-'(. .)`-' `-. Debian, a variant of the GNU operating system. \_/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
