On 2009-09-06 21:12 +0200, John Hasler wrote: > Napoleon writes: >> Overwriting with zeros (or ones) once is not at all secure. It can >> easily be nearly 100% recovered by someone with the necessary >> equipment, even more so on a modern drive. > > Please provide evidence that anyone has ever done this on a modern > drive.
Jumping into that discussion, here is evidence that this is not possible with modern drives: http://www.h-online.com/news/Secure-deletion-a-single-overwrite-will-do-it--/112432 So, anyone who wants to sell his hard disk can just use "dd if=/dev/zero ..." and be done with it. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
