[plug] wiping a hard disk clean

[Bill Kenworthy]

Oxy Acetelene does a good job.  Seriously! Some security services melt
the disks so there is absolutely no chance of recovery.  Software
solutions are vulnerable if you throw enough $$ at it - google showed a
few hits on this.

So if you want to make sure no-one "tries hard" ...

On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 15:59, Ben Jensz wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> Just curious if anyone has any suggestions for something to run under 
> Linux to completely wipe all data from a hard disk, irrespective of 
> filesystem etc?  Some of the disks I'm looking at wiping may have 
> Windows partitions and some have Linux partitons.
> 
> Basically such that you couldn't retrieve the data even if you tried hard?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 
> Ben
> 
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