[ale] OT: Craigslist Scam

[Pete Hardie]

Dariks Boot'n'Nuke is another candidate for disk wiping

On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 17:32, Chris Fowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-03-13 at 15:04 -0400, Bob Toxen wrote:
>>
>>   dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb
>>   dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda
>>   sync
>>
>> or
>>
>>   dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdb
>>   dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda
>>   sync
>>
>
> I found a program called 'wipe' that will do a 4 pass from /dev/random.
> It is slow, but it also verifies the drive as good.
>
> On the email, I got a reply back this morning with the expected results.
> I was not born yesterday so your shipper can not come and get this
> sofa :)
>
> Chris
>
>>
>
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