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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, May 13 2013 @ 04:58 PM EDT |
Thanks for replying.
I agree that if you've actually got sensitive stuff on the drive, physical
destruction is still your best bet. (Some data from experiments I've performed:
a .45 ACP FMJ bullet will put some interesting curves into a 3.5" hard
drive's alloy frame but won't do much to the platters, whereas a 7.62x39 bullet
puts a nice clean hole through the whole shebang, so is probably better for this
purpose.)
However, I would hate for people to confuse the two topics and think that
overwriting the partition table (as described in the ancestral posts)
"wipes" the drive. dd would still be all you'd need to recover almost
all the data on the drive, even after repartitioning and formatting. Overwriting
the entire drive would make it very difficult (maybe impossible) to recover
anything, but doing this with /dev/random wouldn't seem to offer any benefit to
using /dev/zero, and would take far longer so it seems impractical. (I don't
know about your system, but iceweasel sometimes stalls on me when trying to get
just a few K from /dev/random for https connections.)[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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