[plug] HDD Erasure

[Aaron Wooten]

Chris Watt wrote:

>Hi Guys,
>
>Just curious if there is any way to seriously wipe a HDD beyond the
>point of retreival by anyone?  As far as I'm aware it isn't possible
>without the pysical destruction of the drive.  If someone knows of
>something though?
>
>~Chris
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Hi Chris, you may want to have a read of "Secure Deletion of Data from 
Magnetic and Solid-State Memory" By Peter Gutmann

It is located at http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/secure_del.html

Hope this helps

Aaron