Subject: Re: securely erasing a hard disk
To: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
From: Daniel Carosone <dan@geek.com.au>
List: tech-security
Date: 10/21/2005 13:53:38
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On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 01:46:00PM +1000, Daniel Carosone wrote:
>  http://www.netbsd.org/guide/en/chap-cgd.html#chap-cgd-example-scrubbing
>=20
>  provides an example that can be used to wipe the data.

I meant to say "wipe the accessible data".  Putting the two points
next to eachother like this may imply that the example can be used to
wipe remapped data.  The first point is to avoid ever letting the disk
see such data, regardless of how it stores it.

--
Dan.


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