Fwd: Wiping Out Data
- From: "Bob Cortez" <rjcortez@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2007 15:22:08 -0800
I don't know who the stupid gutless punk is that thought it was
necessary to attack me personally off list anonymously but here's my
response.
I was only talking about "kill disk" (see killdisk.com) I've used it
myself on *nix and windows boxes. I've use it on internal, external
and portable drives. The only thing required is the ability to boot
from CD/Floppy. Is it possible to have data recovered after it has
been removed by the killdisk program? Of course, as is the case with
all methods. The only absolutely sure way to destroy data is to
destroy the drive. Are there other, more effective ways to wipe out
data? Sure, and I said as much, but that doesn't invalidate what I
said about killdisk.
Here is the quote from the kildisk.com site:
-->
This is security software for unrecoverable data elimination for any
computer capable of booting in DOS mode from floppy drive. It uses
access to the drive's data on a physical level via BIOS bypassing
logical drive structure organization, thus it does not matter what
operating systems and file systems located on the machine.
It can work with DOS, Windows Vista, Windows XP / 2000 / NT / XP
Professional x64 / XP Home x64/ 2003 Server x64, Linux, Unix for PC
etc...
<--
I'll never understand what turns some people into such flaming idiots
on line. I guess I expected better from this group for some reason.
This is the kind of thing that I would expect from a windows group on
AOL.
Bob
On 4/7/07, Anonyma <anon-bounces@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Bob Cortez wrote:
It does work with ubuntu, it works with EVERY OS. It works on any
kind of drive. It's free. I've used it myself.
And your qualifications for making these sweeping statements would be
exactly what? Usage and blind assumption?
I suspect you're not qualified at all because you obviously haven't even read
the shred man page itself, which lists just some of the scenarios where shred
might might not work. Ironicaly your "every OS and any kind of drive" is false
even according to shred's author, Colin Plumb.
Your unmount solution sounds better however. Just wanted to set the
record straight.
If you truly care about setting the record straight you'd retract your
obviously knee jerk nonsense, and quit handing out advice as though you thought
you some sort of expert because you can manage to run something at the command
line.
I rather suspect you're not grownup enough to do either though. :-(
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