[plug] HDD Erasure

[W.Kenworthy]

which seeg tools did you try.  I used the e2fs one (needed a kernel
module) some time back for keys on a floppy which worked well (ever
lost/misplaced a floppy/usb key ...), and while using an encrypted
container works, a steg hidden encrypted container is another level ...

BillK


On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 10:01 +0800, Goldie, Kathryn (RTSBS) wrote:
> Hiya
>  
> I see quite a few people have given some helpful replies on this. It
> is not hard to retrieve deleted data from hard drives, even if it has
> been overwritten/erased/formatted etc. There are some freely
> downloadable tools to do it.
>  
> One thing that I tested was using a steganography tool, and using it's
> shred utility to shred the hidden file. I then used a retrieval tool
> and was not able to retrieve the shredded file. Other shred utilities
> I tried didn't shred as well as the steggie tool - I was still able to
> retrieve them.
>  
> btw no doubt there are better retrieval tools than the freely
> downloadable one I used :)
>  
> Cheers
>  
> Kathryn
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Chris Watt" <something.rotten at gmail.com>
> To: <plug at plug.org.au>
> Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2005 11:11 PM
> Subject: [plug] HDD Erasure
> 
> 
> 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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