Re: how to sweep hard disk of confidential data
From: Philipp Weis (pweis_at_pweis.com)
Date: 07/18/04
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Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 20:00:05 +0200 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
On 18 Jul 2004, H. S. <greatexcalibur@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I am in a situation where a computer is to be given away and prior to
> that it's hard disk needs to *thoroughly* cleaned (data consists of
> financial information, reports, class exams, competition exams, etc).
Wipe was designed for this. It repeatedly writes certain patterns and
random data to your disk, so that a recovery of the original data is
almost (?) impossible. Versions prior to 0.20 have problems with disks
larger than 4GB, so be sure to use a recent version.
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