Dale writes: > I have seen where people use dd to do this sort of thing to. I read > somewhere that if you do a dd and put in all 1's, then all 0's then back > again that it is very hard to get any data back off the drive. I think > if you do it like over a dozen times, it is deemed impossible to get > anything back. I think that is the Government standard of it's gone.
There's no need for multiple passes of dd with different values. http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Secure-deletion-a-single-overwrite-will-do-it-739699.html Wonko
