The Great Zero Challenge

[David A. Bandel]

On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 8:58 PM, Lonni J Friedman <netllama at gmail.com> wrote:
> dd = all your data are belong to us
> http://16systems.com/zero/index.html
>

Well, this is all I've ever done when getting rid of a drive.  I just
use dd (disk duplicate aka disk destroy) using /dev/null or /dev/zero
(using /dev/random or /dev/urandom requires too much entropy) on the
drive and make sure even the MBR is done and it's like a brand new
drive -- no partitions, nothing.  Restores my faith in my method.  If
I was worried, I'd do it more than once, but I've always believed the
stories that someone could get information from the track edges was
just that:  stories.  Never seen it done, never seen a program that
even attempts to do it, so I doubt it can be done.  Willing to be
proven wrong, though.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
-- 
Focus on the dream, not the competition.
 - Nemesis Air Racing Team motto