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| Subject: | Re: Securely wiping a "dead" usb pen drive |
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| Date: | Thu, 30 Sep 2004 11:27:29 -0400 |
I can understand the need to be careful, but I would just get a Linux boot CD and run 'shred' against the thumbdrive. From what I have read, shred does pretty well getting rid of residual data on magnetic media. I don't see anything special about solid state media that would prevent it from working similarly well. But then I could be wrong...so shred it and then hit it with a hammer. ;) -- Nathan R. Valentine <nathan@nathanvalentine.org>
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