-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 10/01/2011 07:25 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 21:04:13 -0700, > Linda McLeod <lindavaldeen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> My IP and OS are a vandalism target of mindless childish hellbound kooks >> hellbent on causing me grief to appease their delusions that I'm in any >> ways like them, and that I might somehow want to help them solve their >> useless bullyish lives.. is why I find it best to "DBAN" compromised >> OS's, to make hd's totally clean for new installs... > I think having a DBAN CD is a better idea. Otherwise it would be too easy for an inexperienced user to wipe their disk by mistake. > DBAN is used when you are going to lose control of the media (because you are > selling it or throwing it out) to prevent people from recovering your data. > It isn't needed to prevent you from accidentally running code looking at > data left behind after a compromise. A reinstall (including rewriting the > MBR and repartitioning) is good enough. > > Also related to this is that hdparm will let you use the secure erase > feature of disk drives that support that feature. You may not be able to do this if the drive is in the computer when you boot. It is a "feature" of the BIOS that disables this option at boot. Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk6HlLQACgkQqbQrVW3JyMT3ZQCeKrS2Pzque8d/iZMEUNi9Rzdp jAoAn1Lq111m1wYW3AQHycrDquoYP85U =j/js -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
