Would it not make more sense instead of paying someone all the time of
wiping the drive, and the use of a degausser to bring them to a metal
factory and have them melted down ? That way there is no way for the
data to be recovered ? And yes you would have to watch the drive get
melted in order to ensure it was destroyed.
later,
Adam
On 4/26/05, vulcanius <vulcanius@gmail.com> wrote:
DoD standards require a program to wipe the drive six times. However,
there was a guy a while back who wrote a program to wipe a drive/file
over I believe 30 times. Anyone know who made it or what it was
called?
On 4/26/05, Jason Prespolis <jprespol@neri.org> wrote:
Clean the hard drive before dumping your PC
If you don't know much about computers, this might be easier than Step
2. There are several programs that write gibberish to the hard drive.
They promise that nobody will be able to find your files after the
software is utilized.
PC Inspector's (www.pcinspector.de) e-maxx meets U.S. military
standards.
Another good program is DriveScrubber ($29.95), from Iolo Technologies
(www.iolo.com).
If you have a Mac, try SuperScrubber (www.jiiva.com). It is $30, and
also meets military specs.
This process can be slow, because these programs write to the disk
repeatedly. You might want to run itovernight
http://www.microsoft.com/smallbusiness/issues/technology/security/clean_
the_hard_drive_before_dumping_your_pc.mspx
East-Tec Sanitizer offers best solution to safely erasing hard disks
http://techrepublic.com.com/5100-6270_11-5217262.html
Active@ KillDisk
http://killdisk.com/downloadfree.htm
-----Original Message-----
From: Kinnell [mailto:kinnell.t@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, April 25, 2005 2:06 PM
To: security-basics@securityfocus.com
Subject: HD memory wiper/shredder
Hey all.
I recently had a friend ask me if I knew of any real good file
shredders/wipers. He wants to be able to securely shred a file used for
an encryption key after it is no longer needed at that location.
I couldn't think of any off of the top of my head but I figured this
list would be a great place to start. So does anyone know of a good
shredder to use for this purpose? Freeware would be preferred.
thanks,
Kinnell
