Disk Sanitization

[Brian Kelsay]

At work I was looking for a program that could automate this for me for the
few sensitive disks I might receive or any special requests to ensure data
wipe.   One of the fastest and most flexible solutions was "Derik's Boot and
Nuke", a bootable linux distro that would wipe a disk to any of the US Gov't
standards in existance (DOD, US Naval Intel, NSA, etc.).   It will overwrite
the entire disk as many times as you want with ones and zeroes or random
data.   It's free at download.com and you set it and forget it.    Like all
the others it takes a while to run (6 hrs on a 6GB disk), but it required no
monitoring and outpaced the other solutions marginally for speed and
definitely for price!!  I had no budget for this, but I was investigating it
to see if I should ask for funds.
Thanks Linux,
Brian

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dale Beams" <drbeams at hotmail.com>
To: <kclug at kclug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 5:29 PM
Subject: Disk Sanitization

> It would be an interesting "field-trip" if KCLUG could get a local
> university with an electorn microscope, or some other company to
> demonstrate electron microscope recovery to the group.  One could buy a
> couple of old disks from e-bay and format the different ways.
>
> As for linux/unix this might also work
> ftp://ftp.east-tec.com/trial/sanitize.tgz
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