shredding files on a flash drive

Kristian Erik Hermansen kristian.hermansen-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Tue Jan 22 22:16:13 UTC 2008


On Jan 22, 2008 2:10 PM, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Does the forensics community have issues with people knowing how to
> clean up properly?
>
> If they do, well to darn bad.

I think Simson's point was that Guttmann was incorrect in his claims
that data on overwritten drives could be recovered and should be
overwritten many times to become 'secured'.  The know one sure way to
secure a drive, and that it is smash it with a sledgehammer and throw
it in the fire.  But, apparently just dd'ing with zeros *once* is
sufficient...
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