Darik's Boot And Nuke Thought I had the web page bookmarked, but can't find it. -- ---- ------ Todd Young > 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 _______________________________________________ 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