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i was only suggesting that you re-write the partition table.



a DOD wipe isn't necessary unless you're

A - a porn weirdo
B - an international criminal
C - an ET
D - holding medical records.
E - working in a
SCIF<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensitive_Compartmented_Information_Facility>


IBM/lenovo don't care that much, but some bored returns processor might try
to hook it up before throwing it back into the inventory system.

(i used to do returns for a HP when i was desperate for an easy job, and i
saw similar things happen).



On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Christopher Cashell <topher-olug at zyp.org>wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Jeff Hinrichs - DM&T <dundeemt at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Gutmann is the same idea but applied to mfm/mll disks.  Writing all
> > 0's once leaves the theoretical possibility of  equipment sufficiently
> > advanced to detect smaller residual differences and still be able to
> > make a good analysis of the disk.(some bits are not as 0 as others)
> > You need to remember that magnetic field levels are not digital, but
> > analog.
>
> Note that modern disks do not use MFM/RLL encodings, and even Gutmann
> has come out and said that his secure data deletion techniques have
> been misused and misunderstood.  After recent criticism suggesting
> that a single pass with random data or even zeros would be enough to
> make recover impossible, Gutmann updated his original article on
> secure deletion.  One of the last statements includes, "Any modern
> drive will most likely be a hopeless task [. . .]".[1]
>
> > Paranoid me?  Who said that? :)
>
> I may be a little paranoid, but the engineer inside my head requires
> evidence in some cases, and with modern drive recovery, there's
> nothing but speculation.
>
> > -Jeff
> > +1 for DBAN
>
> [1] http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/secure_del.html<http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/%7Epgut001/pubs/secure_del.html>
>
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