Hello scoundrel50a, On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 06:40:33PM +0000, scoundrel50a wrote: > What is so wrong about wanting to be able to securely wipe an > hdd.........
Nothing. As I stated, a simple single pass of dd is all that's needed to practically do that, and if you need more than that then DBAN's your tool. I use DBAN myself on anything that has other people's data on it just so I can honestly say to them that the data is gone. For my own stuff I am happy with a single pass of dd. > and why do people feel the need to be so condescending when > somebody asks about it.......trying to make the person asking look > guilty......funny thing, you seem to know how to do it, even with the > attitude...... Where is _your_ attitude coming from? I wasn't trying to make anyone look guilty. No one even made any outlandish suggestions yet so who would I be trying to make look guilty!? The people who do exactly the same as what I do? It is common that people think that all manner of extreme measures are required, and I was just trying to head that off in a humourous way so we didn't need to go there. As it turns out I completely missed the mark anyway because he wasn't actually asking about secure data deletion. Maybe I hit a little too close to home. It's OK, scoundrel50a, I won't come looking for your island fortress. Stand down your henchpersons. Have a great weekend! Cheers, Andy -- http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
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