On 02/04/18 15:09, wwp wrote: > Hello, > > > On Mon, 2 Apr 2018 10:01:56 -0400 m.roth@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > >> Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote: >>> Good evening from Singapore! >>> >>> The foremost question which I want to ask is, what is the universal >>> (world wide) understanding behind degaussing hard drives? >>> >>> I work for No Secrets Agency (NSA) Pte Ltd (fictitious company name >>> used). My sales manager Edward Joseph Snowden (fictitious individual >>> name used) had *promised* our customer Leave Me in the Lurch (S) Pte >>> Ltd (fictitious company name used) that we would "DEGAUSS" their hard >>> disks after the PC replacement and data migration exercise for 15 >>> trillion PCs (fictitious number used). >>> >>> PC = Personal Computer, which includes desktops and laptops >>> >> <snip> >> A little too much other info, and overly eloquent. However, if your >> company told the client that you were going to deGauss all the h/d, that's >> what you need to do, contractually. >> >> If they've had a second discussion, and only want the data deleted, that's >> another story. >> >> Is the data on a different partition than the o/s (i.e., /data? If so, you >> can easily wipe the data, using say, shred, or DBAN (which offers both >> 3-pass and the full 7-pass DoD 5220.22-M). If it's in the same partition, >> and the same filesystem, you've got other issues. How do you *guarantee* >> that there's no user data - say, installed third-party software mixed with >> the o/s? >> >> Note that you really do have to make any third-party software, if it's >> commercial, Go Away. > > Note that the original message has also been sent to the fedora users > mailing list, no doubt it's spam now. this message turned up on ubuntu users as well. Cheers, Phil. -- Broken windows and empty hallways, Pale dead moon in a sky streaked with grey, Human kindness - is overflowing, And I think it's going to rain.........today
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