[ale] Nuking a drive

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Matthew-

As per Geoff and Greg,

I have first-hand experience of organizations whose POLICY is to retain
the drive.

Chris

> Actually, the 3 letter orgs shred their drives (just like a wood chipper,
> but for HD's).
> 
> Greg
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org]On Behalf Of
> > Geoffrey
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 2:22 PM
> > To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> > Subject: Re: [ale] Nuking a drive
> >
> >
> > Matthew Brown wrote:
> > > I am returning two Dell servers thta have served me well.  It's
> > End-of-Lease
> > > time.
> > >
> > > Anyone know the best quick way to nuke a drive to make all its contents
> > > unrecoverable?
> >
> > Depends on the extent of your paranoia.  Boot with a rescue disk/floppy,
> > then reformat the drives, write nulls to them, filling them up, then
> > reformat the drives..
> >
> > Worried about three letter organizations?  Don't return the drives...
> >
> > --
> > Until later, Geoffrey                     Registered Linux User #108567
> > Building secure systems in spite of Microsoft
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