[DM-MUG] Hello Everyone and i have a question

[Bryan Baker]

DBAN is a bootable floppy/CD linux distro that can be used by at least  
any x86 machine.
I believe there is a PPC release as well, but that's getting less and  
less of an issue.
You can also use (the much underutilized) Disk utility in OSX - it has  
options to do most of the same multi-pass secure wipe operations DBAN  
provides - but of course it only works on Macs.
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If you click on "Security Options" on this screen, you get this screen:

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Note you have 4 choices from fast/insecure ranging to very slow/very  
secure. 7 pass is DOD standard (meaning the military is satisfied with  
it) .

The NSA probably does it 70 times and still shreds the drives  
physically before blasting them in a furnace and shooting the slag  
into deep space with a time delayed nuke*

*Complete paranoid fantasy, but I bet they'd like something like that.


The original question was about an HP PC, so DBAN is the best bet for  
secure wiping.


On Feb 26, 2009, at 10:53 AM, Victoria L. Herring wrote:
> is DBAN for Windows or anyone?  It wasn't clear on the site.   
> Lawyers on the MacLaw list, due to their rules etc., suggest  
> strongly taking a hammer or whatever to and physically destroying  
> the disk.
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