On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, rpjday wrote: > On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Keith Morse wrote:
[snippage] > > > > Well, since the topic was broached. Would doing this be a satisfactory > > way of "zeroing" out the hard drive (no data retrevial possible) if the > > system was being sent to salavage (sold off)? > > that would be a relatively safe way, yes. for efficiency sake, if > you're going to do any sizable transfers with "dd", use a bigger > blocksize, like bs=100k or something. the difference is noticeable. > > rday > > p.s. i say "relatively" safe since computer forensics is allegedly > capable of extracting data from a "zeroed" disk by detecting lingering > magnetic values. but this is not something you should worry about > if you're just going to give the disk away to charity or something. Just curious. I've heard of entities that require triple-double dog security, nuclear weapons secrets or some such nonesense, have a formal destruction procedures for the magnetic media. _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
