[GTALUG] Ten grand for this?

[David Thornton]

Wipe or destroy? Dban is better than rm.

On Thu, Dec 17, 2015, 5:07 PM  <phiscock at ee.ryerson.ca> wrote:

> From Metro News today:
>
> Two top McGuinty aides charged in gas plants computer probe
>
> ....
> Faist was paid $10,000 for wiping the drives out of the taxpayer-funded
> Liberal caucus budget, police allege. The party subsequently repaid the
> sum to the public treasury.
> ....
>
> Ten grand to erase some hard drives?
>
> Boot a Linux CD or USBKey.
> Change to the root directory.
> rm -rf *.
>
> Done.
>
> Or maybe it was $50.00 to erase the drives and $9950.00 for 'discretion'.
>
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