[svlug] dban settings

[James Sparenberg]

You might find this interesting.  

http://16systems.com/zero/index.html

They have set down the challenge for any company to recover any of the 
data on a modern HDD using dd and /dev/zero 

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda 

only run one time.

Good bad or otherwise it's interesting to note that they can't find a 
company willing to try (they have called them up) even for pay.

James


On Wednesday 10 September 2008 09:02:27 David Rosenstrauch wrote:
> Just wondering:  what are reasonable settings to choose when dban'ing 
a
> hard drive?  Most notably:  how many rounds should I set it to perform
> to be *reasonably* sure the data's nice and wiped.  (Note:  the use of
> the word "reasonably".  No need for ultra-paranoid settings.)
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> DR
> 
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