It may be overkill but I have always been a fan of DBAN (<a href="http://www.dban.org/">http://www.dban.org/</a>) for erasing hard drives it is relatively quick and mostly hands free. <br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Nathan Stien <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nathanism@gmail.com">nathanism@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Howdy Luggers,<br><br><a href="http://www.h-online.com/news/Secure-deletion-a-single-overwrite-will-do-it--/112432" target="_blank">http://www.h-online.com/news/Secure-deletion-a-single-overwrite-will-do-it--/112432</a><br>
<br>In the above link, the author says that multi-pass hard drive wiping programs are silly, because overwriting data once with zeroes is enough to make it unrecoverable to forensics experts. This is definitely counter to what I have been taught, and I'm curious what y'all think about it. <br>
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