Re: Inquiry:How to totally wipe out the entire hard drive

Lee Winter wrote: [snip] > > He is pretty well known in the fields of computer security and > data deletion. Here is a link to his paper. > > http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/secure_del.html > > > > Yup, tha

Re: Inquiry:How to totally wipe out the entire hard drive

Lee Winter wrote: > On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Sven Joachim > wrote: > [snip] > > Jumping into that discussion, here is evidence that this is not > possible > with modern drives: > > > http://www.h-online.com/news/Secure-deletion-a-single-overwrite-wil

Re: Inquiry:How to totally wipe out the entire hard drive

Napoleon wrote: > John Hasler wrote: >> I wrote: >>> If you want to destroy all the data for security purposes install and >>> use shred. It will take quite a while on a large disk. >> >> Ron Johnson writes: >>> This really is a myth. > [snip] > (Should have gone to the list but I screwed up the f