lcoe <lcoe@c1932201-a.attbi.com> wrote:
>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

Don't look for software solutions to eradicate data on a disk.

There are two sure fire methods. One is to dent it
sufficiently, and the other is to melt it sufficiently. A
twenty pound hammer will work for the first, and a cutting torch
is useful to implement the second.

Anything else is risking having front page headlines about what
ever it is you have on the disk.

--
Floyd L. Davidson <http://web.newsguy.com/floyd_davidson>
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska) floyd@barrow.com