Johnny Fulcrum wrote:

> Hoping someone can help me remember the name of this:
>
> It's a floppy disk that you stick in your computer, it will boot some 
> sort of linux, ID your hard drives and delete everything on them.  It 
> has like 5 levels of deletion - the highest one says that it'll delete 
> data so well that the NSA couldn't even restore it (like 50 passes 
> over the area it's deleting....)
>
> ring a bell with anyone?
>
Um... couldn't you just get any bootable linux distro, and do a
dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/hd??
or
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hd??
and achieve the same effect?  Why would you need 50 passes?  Isn't one 
enough?

Chris Frederick


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