[olug] [OT] IBM Authorized service center in Lincoln...

[Irish]

On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 12:56 AM, Christopher Cashell <topher-olug at zyp.org>wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Irish <irish.masms at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Why settle for 'just fine'?
> > *Darik's Boot And Nuke* | Hard Drive Disk Wipe and Data
> > Clearing<http://www.dban.org/>
>
> One of the options offered by DBAN is identical to using dd to
> overwrite a disk with zeros.  There's been random speculation that
> high end data recovery equipment could recover data from a zeroed out
> hard drive, but I've never seen any evidence of anyone being able to
> actually do so (on a modern drive).  Additionally, the rapid pace of
>
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Yea, you probably will not see that. ;)

Even better than overwriting with zeros, is enacting the drive wipe command
- but this is with certain drives in the last number of years or so, if the
manufacturer enabled that codeset.

-- 
Timothy G. O'Brien, CISSP, GSEC, NSA-IAM

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