On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 14:11:48 -0600, Chris Frederick <cdf123 at cdf123.com> wrote: > Johnny Fulcrum wrote: > >> Hoping someone can help me remember the name of this: >> >> It's a floppy disk that you stick in your computer, it will boot some >> sort of linux, ID your hard drives and delete everything on them. It >> has like 5 levels of deletion - the highest one says that it'll delete >> data so well that the NSA couldn't even restore it (like 50 passes over >> the area it's deleting....) >> >> ring a bell with anyone? >> > Um... couldn't you just get any bootable linux distro, and do a > dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/hd?? > or > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hd?? Yes, but this was a great tool for wiping drives - make a few floppies, erase 200 computers at a time.... > and achieve the same effect? Why would you need 50 passes? Isn't one > enough? > No it is not. One pass does not fully erase the data - some would argue that you need to physically destroy the disk before all data is "gone". > Chris Frederick > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list