On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 21:04:13 -0700, Linda McLeod <lindavald...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > My IP and OS are a vandalism target of mindless childish hellbound kooks > hellbent on causing me grief to appease their delusions that I'm in any > ways like them, and that I might somehow want to help them solve their > useless bullyish lives.. is why I find it best to "DBAN" compromised > OS's, to make hd's totally clean for new installs...
DBAN is used when you are going to lose control of the media (because you are selling it or throwing it out) to prevent people from recovering your data. It isn't needed to prevent you from accidentally running code looking at data left behind after a compromise. A reinstall (including rewriting the MBR and repartitioning) is good enough. Also related to this is that hdparm will let you use the secure erase feature of disk drives that support that feature. -- 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
