[clug] Secure deletion of hard drive = dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda

[Jason Stokes]

Apropos of the "secure deletion" debate that was going on quite a while ago: forensics specialist says secure deletion occurs with just one overwrite:

http://www.h-online.com/news/Secure-deletion-a-single-overwrite-will-do-it--/112432

Of course, this doesn't exclude the possibility of the government with their secret superconducting quantum inference detectors somehow extracting the data -- but if you're that paranoid, you're not going to trust anything anyway.



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