Me or Aaron. We likely need to look at adding a new page of "Important links collected by ALErs" with some links getting a full local mirror/copy for extra archival.<br><br>Or just post it on the list directly! That will get archived in mailman and on googlegroups.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 12:38 PM, Greg Freemyer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:greg.freemyer@gmail.com">greg.freemyer@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;">
Who can I send it to so that it can live on the ALE website?<br>
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On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Brian Pitts <<a href="mailto:brian@polibyte.com">brian@polibyte.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On 04/16/2010 11:31 AM, Greg Freemyer wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> NIST has a sanitation paper that says disk drives of 20GB or larger<br>
>> capacity are not recoverable even via laboratory means after a single<br>
>> wipe with zero's.<br>
>><br>
>> So your just wasting cpu cycles using /dev/urandom. Just use<br>
>> /dev/zero. And just do it once.<br>
><br>
> The link you shared to a discussion of that paper a while back is dead.<br>
> Do you know of any more sources? I'd really like to have something to<br>
> wave at the "you must wipe it 27 times" people.<br>
><br>
>> Also, ext2/3 reserves x% of the drive for root, so if your doing the<br>
>> above as a normal user, your missing that x%. I think x% is 5%, but I<br>
>> don't recall for sure. And 5% of 1TB is 50GB, so it is a big deal.<br>
><br>
> At Free IT Athens, we run sfill and sswap from the secure-delete suite<br>
> of tools as a post-install action to securely erase all unused space on<br>
> a system being refurbished. sfill sipes the disk space and inode space,<br>
> and sswap takes care of the swap partition.<br>
><br>
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> Brian Pitts<br>
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