In a book i have been reading, they mention wiping your disk partitions
using the line :

dd bs=1000k </dev/zero >/dev/sdXa 

Where X is the drive number. NORTON utilities, when wiping has options such as
secure wipe, and govt wipe, and military wipe. Norton wipes by writing a string of
0, then a string of 1, then a string of 0, repeating the process different
numbers of times for different levels of security.

OK, so why have we NOT GOT a /dev/one so we can do the same thing?
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