bd <bdonlan@bd-home-comp.no-ip.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Jun 2003 19:39:18 +0000, Irving Kimura wrote:

>>
>>
>> I suppose that I could just reformat a hard disk if I want to erase
>> its contents, but my understanding is that it may be possible for
>> someone intent on doing it to still recover at least some of the
>> data. There's a lot of highly sensitive data in this disk I want
>> to dispose of. Is there a program that will truly wipe a whole
>> hard disk clean?

> How about the appropriately named 'wipe'? ;)
> http://wipe.sourceforge.net/

or a standard unix util: badblocks. it can wipe a disk any
number of times w/a small script, let it run overnite. --Loren




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