Sterilizing free space

Fernando Duran liberosec-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org
Wed Jan 4 03:04:01 UTC 2006


I'd leave the clean sanitation of a hard drive to
professionals like this:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/romanedirisinghe/18782400/in/photostream/

Fernando

--- Sy Ali <sy1234-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> On 1/3/06, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>
> wrote:
> > If there is a "formal" need for 'wiping,' then the
> answer probably
> > involves making sure that you have expertise and
> equipment inside your
> > organization that can be used to outright DESTROY
> the hardware, down
> > to the point of grinding the disks into powder.
> >
> > If you haven't reason to be that paranoid, then it
> is probably
> > over-paranoid to even go as far as using
> /dev/urandom to "wipe" the
> > disk.
> >
> > I don't see there being a stable mid-point...
> 
> 
> First, thanks for the tips everyone.. I've updated
> my notes to include
> the new ideas.
> 
> I've disassembled a hard drive and scratched the
> crap out of it..
> that's made me happy enough.  Processes like those
> are especially
> useful in cases where the drive dies and its data
> can't be sanitized
> in these traditional direct-access ways.
> 
> It makes it quite inconvenient to return a hard
> drive under warranty
> if it doesn't spin up and the data has to be
> sanitized.  Heh.
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