[Gllug] Disk Wipe

[Grzegorz Jaskiewicz]

On Monday 24 May 2004 12:11, Alain Williams wrote:

> How secure do you want to be ? Or how sensitive is the data on the disk ?
>
> If it is to be proof against the average guy in the street or you are
> protecting non sensitive personal letters/..., then simply copying
> /dev/zero to the disk will be enough:
> 	dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda
Never do any secure-suppose-to-be operation based on zero filled files!
use random.

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Grzegorz Jaskiewicz
K4 labs
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