A colleague of mine was looking for a simple bootable cd that would securly wipe all the information from the internal disks. Any suggestions?
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JoshRoss
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mastermine
See.Hear.Frag
I use Darik's Boot And Nuke
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PerfectPhase
"This is not war, this is pest control!" - Dalek to Cyberman
mastermine said:I use Darik's Boot And Nuke
Second thumbs up for DBAN.
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JoshRoss
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PerfectPhase said:mastermine said:*snip*
Second thumbs up for DBAN.
The funny this is that I have this bulk tape eraser and I thought that I would try it out on an old hard drive. I was expecting either nothing to happen or the drive to require a format. Little did I know, that there was a third option, that the drive would be killed. Lesson learned.
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figuerres
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JoshRoss said:PerfectPhase said:*snip*The funny this is that I have this bulk tape eraser and I thought that I would try it out on an old hard drive. I was expecting either nothing to happen or the drive to require a format. Little did I know, that there was a third option, that the drive would be killed. Lesson learned.
LOL ... that Bulk eraser made a nasty big EM pulse like a baby nuke.... chips fried on ya.
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Ion Todirel
buuu
I'd like to see a mini filter driver which intercepts I/O requests and when a file is deleted would also write "random" bits on that location(s). It probably affect performance but it would be cool.
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CannotResolveSymbol
Microsoft: Who do you want to execute today?
Ion Todirel said:I'd like to see a mini filter driver which intercepts I/O requests and when a file is deleted would also write "random" bits on that location(s). It probably affect performance but it would be cool.
If you're really concerned about file security (to the point of running something like this), just run whole disk encryption... that way both your deleted data and your not deleted data are all secure. From the outside looking in, an encrypted disk (using decent software) is indistinguishable from random data.
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Ion Todirel
buuu
CannotResolveSymbol said:Ion Todirel said:*snip*
If you're really concerned about file security (to the point of running something like this), just run whole disk encryption... that way both your deleted data and your not deleted data are all secure. From the outside looking in, an encrypted disk (using decent software) is indistinguishable from random data.
Encryption requires CPU cycles, on a underpowered machine it wouldn't work very well.
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