Am Mittwoch, den 11.03.2009, 14:53 +0100 schrieb Goswin von Brederlow: > Paul Menzel <pm.debian@googlemail.com> writes: > > > Am Mittwoch, den 11.03.2009, 11:08 +0100 schrieb Goswin von Brederlow: > >> Matt Taggart <taggart@debian.org> writes: > >> > >> >> Well this assumption (to encrypt the disc afterward) is not necessarily > >> >> valid. A company is giving away computers to a school or for use for > >> >> children, where no encryption is needed. They require you to wipe the > >> >> drive. (Ok, they should do it themselves to be on the safe side of > >> >> things, but in reality things are different.) > >> > > >> > BTW something like "Dan's Boot and Nuke" is an option for this case too. > >> > But like I said in a previous mail it would be convenient if d-i could do > >> > this as I usually have d-i disks laying around :) > >> > >> Switch to the second console. > >> > >> cat </dev/null >/dev/sda > >> > >> Go get lunch. > > > > Well that is not sufficient. Doing this the date can still be > > reconstructed. > > There have been multiple challenges to data reconstructing firms to > actualy demonstrate they can reconstruct a disk after a single > overwrite. None of them have been answered ttbom. So your claim > remains theoretical. Interesting. Good to hear that, to be more sceptical towards the propaganda by the recovery companies. It would be interesting if you could post the link to this information. Strangely that governments have those standards to erase discs several times. > If you really are that paranoid then use /dev/(u)random multiple > times. > > >> >> If such a udeb exists and the additional option is too much work, could > >> >> you please point me to a howto where the handling of udeb-files is > >> >> described, so I can unpack it manually. > >> > > >> > BTW, not a udeb but I did publish instructions on how to use shred > >> > > >> > http://lackof.org/taggart/hacking/d-i-tricks/#shred Thanks, Paul
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