> In any case, if someone wants your data that bad, it is time to dig out > the old sledgehammer and physically destroy the disk. Otherwise, scrub > and other secure erasure programs should be sufficient.
Programs that just write over the data a few times may or may not help but you never know. A sledgehammer won't help you either if the person who wants the data has resources. Modern drives support a secure erase/wipe feature (see hdparm). It's probably the best option you get short of doing what probably would have been smartest - encrypting it at install time ;) There is a school of security thought that beyond the point where it's cheaper to send a guy round to see you carrying instruments of persuasion the extra investment isn't actually useful... Alan -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
