[Cialug] Semi-OT: wiping a hard drive once is enough?

[Andrew Denner]

It may be overkill but I have always been a fan of DBAN (
http://www.dban.org/) for erasing hard drives it is relatively quick and
mostly hands free.


On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Nathan Stien <nathanism at gmail.com> wrote:

> Howdy Luggers,
>
>
> http://www.h-online.com/news/Secure-deletion-a-single-overwrite-will-do-it--/112432
>
> 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.
>
> - Nathan
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