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Re: [Full-disclosure] Disk wiping -- An alternate approach?
- To: Tracy Reed <treed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Disk wiping -- An alternate approach?
- From: "E. Prom" <e3prom@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 06:07:38 +0100
2010/1/26 Tracy Reed <treed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (short extract):
> Executive summary: Data overwritten once is unrecoverable on any drive
> made in the last 10 years. So do a single write pass from /dev/random
> on working drives.
Thanks for all this information.
By the way, does somebody knows about the flash memory?
Is zeroing a whole usb key enough to make the data unrecoverable?
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