[plug] sanitise your hard drive before passing it on ...

[William Kenworthy]

I have worked in a "security" concious industry at one time where dead
disks (of any persuasion) were consigned to being melted into a puddle
using oxy acetylene equipment to make sure sure that data was not being
"freed"!  A disk from the average joe windoz user who does not know to
even store his financial details in an encrypted file seems like more a
fact of life, and unlikely to change anytime soon.  And yes, I have had
to go search for blocks of data on fat32 disks that have been formated:
gave up in disgust as hand reassembling data blocks was not worth the
effort, but back then I was "honest" ...

As for the article - well it was from zdnet!

BillK

On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 00:03, Harry McNally wrote:
> On 16 Jan 2003 21:26:38 +0800 William Kenworthy <billk at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> 
> > http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103-980824.html
> 
> The comments posted reveal an amazing lack of knowledge; particularly
> about what Windows does within delete, format, fdisk.
> 
> Someone (uses Linux = has brain) mentioned dd as posted previously on PLUG
> and another pointed to BCWipe:
> 
> http://linux.tucows.com/internet/preview/54369.html
> 
> also a Linux utility.
> 
> Sorry if I'm spoiling your data recovery fun, Bill :-)
> 
> All the best
> Harry
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William Kenworthy <billk at iinet.net.au>