On 1/8/20 11:59 AM, Michael Stone wrote: > No, that's still an unnecesarily slow alternative
Hence the suggestion to run it overnight, while asleep. And, I suspect, dd is plenty good enough to make the disk in a Mac Mini unreadable by a Mac OS. > which will not improve > your security but will make verification harder. :) In that case, dban or equivalent. Still overnight. I don't know what verification is, but a few passes from dban sure will improve security -- in case a disk full of random bytes (or zeros) is going to be inspected with some hard core instrumentation. -- Glenn English
