On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Robert L Cochran<cochranb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm surprised this thread was reawakened...makes me wonder what sort of > child I created here! > > I first used Alan's suggestion about checking for, and if possible, using > the security erase feature of a security-erase enabled hard drive. This > drive was too old to have such a feature. I checked it with hdparm -I and > then hdparm -i to verify the fact. > > I then used Sam's dd suggestion on the drive. I selected his suggestion > because dd is standard Unix/Linux software, it has presumably passed > security audits, and I don't have to make some decision about whether it > would "phone home" on me or perhaps leave a nice little tar file on some > area of the drive. > > Then I disassembled the drive. You don't need a standard screwdriver for it; > the main requirement is a torx driver and a little ability to peel off the > seals marked "warranty void if removed". > > I then did some fairly nasty things to the read/write heads and platters and > threw out certain items drive hardware so that it is most unlikely the drive > can be reassembled. The platters were futher belabored and rendered > scratched, badly bent, and little-kid dirty With all that effort to securely erase the data, and the question on a public mailing ist, anybody would think that you HAD important data to begin with in there!. If I were an evildoer, I´d google your name, lookup your home address and then pick up your trash tonight. *VBG* FC -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
