On Mon, Apr 02, 2018 at 05:29:13PM +0100, Phil Dobbin wrote:
> 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.
which explains why I'm NOT going to view the attached file. You neer
know what is in it.
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