[PLUG] Disk wiping utility?

[Kristian Erik Hermansen]

On Jan 28, 2008 10:55 AM, Michael Ewan <mhewan1 at comcast.net> wrote:
> This level of disk wipe does not really delete the data, you need a
> minimum of 5 passes, 3 passes random data, one pass all 1's, one pass
> all zeros.

You are incorrect sir.  The 'Guttmann' paper only applies to older
drives.  The myth about recovering data after /dev/zero is false and
is a very old DoD standard that applies to only certain types of drive
encoding.  Read the paper.  Read the rebuttals.  The rest is hype...
-- 
Kristian Erik Hermansen
"Know something about everything and everything about something."