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 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list