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Need to throw away or sell 500 or so PCs? Don't want the buyer to be able to read the data from the hard disk?

Darik's Boot 'n' Nuke is a mini-Linux distro (image for Floppy and CD-ROM). You boot on it, it erases every disk on the computer. You get one chance to say, "No, I didn't mean to do it."

I tried a package called "Autoclave" but this was much faster and betterer.

Plus, "Boot 'N Nuke" is a much better name.

http://freshmeat.net/projects/dban/

Date: 2004-02-26 09:15 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] docstrange.livejournal.com
What IEEE standard? What NSA standard? I've never seen those. I've seen DoD guidelines and specific branch standards (which mostly recommend destruction and degaussing, though USAF recommends triple overwrite on a "case by case" basis), but no NSA or IEEE standards at all. Indeed, IEEE papers on data erasure don't mention any IEEE standard. I even vaguely recall an article about all those oft-cited standards being urban legends.

Date: 2004-02-26 09:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] yesthattom.livejournal.com
It supports one DoD recommendation, a RCMP recommendation, and three home-grown ones. Each takes a different amount of time.

Date: 2004-02-26 09:44 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] docstrange.livejournal.com
Hrm. I'm interested, because the DoD policy is really vague and generally recommends slagging the material. The different branches have their own standards, which still generally don't specify how to overwrite (except USAF, which does). Does the author cite any actual documents? There's a *ton* of recycled urban legend in the disk wiping "standards" discussions. The DoD one commonly cited -- 5220.22-M -- has no recommendation on how to do overwriting.

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