On 18 Jul 2004, H. S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am in a situation where a computer is to be given away and prior to 
> that it's hard disk needs to *thoroughly* cleaned (data consists of 
> financial information, reports, class exams, competition exams, etc).

Wipe was designed for this. It repeatedly writes certain patterns and
random data to your disk, so that a recovery of the original data is
almost (?) impossible. Versions prior to 0.20 have problems with disks
larger than 4GB, so be sure to use a recent version.


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Philipp Weis          [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Freiburg, Germany     http://pweis.com/

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