Re: Best GPG practices before sending computer to maintenance.

[Eriberto Mota <eriberto@debian.org>]

2016-11-12 15:03 GMT-02:00 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>:
> On Sat, 12 Nov 2016, Eriberto Mota wrote:
>> There is another point to be considered: the RAM memory. The data,
>
> Eriberto, would a full pass of memtest86 work as well?
>
> It is supposed to test the entire RAM in destructive mode, and it does
> use a lot of very nasty bit-walking patterns to do it, even...


Hum, a good catch. I never tested this procedure. But it is a
interesting thing to try. You can test it and use lime-forensics
(already packaged) + strings/grep commands to do a quick analysis. I
will test it soon. But it seems a good idea too.

Thanks!

Eriberto