On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Gustin Johnson<[email protected]> wrote:
> DBAN has various modes depending on your level of paranoia / security > awareness. The default mode does a pass with ones, a pass with zeros, > and then a pass from urandom, making data recovery next to impossible. > If you are giving these drives away or selling them (ie. they will no > longer be in your possession) then I would highly recommend the default > run with DBAN. You *could* do this manually yourself, but DBAN makes it > idiot proof, especially if you have a number of them to go through. > I am going to give it to someone else, who was going to scrap (i.e. drill ) the disc, and scrap the computer. If this works for him, I will take the wiped computer and give it to Kin for Linux for kids. As he is not terribly knowledgeable about computers, the idiot proof bit is the most important. Graham _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
