On Thursday, October 30, 2008 05:55:14 am Passive PROFITS wrote: > 1. securely delete/wipe/scrub files > 2. securely wipe free disk space > 3. securely wipe a whole partition and/or disk. The only way to 100% get rid of data on magnetic media is with a 10lb sledge hammer and trips to dumpsters in different cities, being sure you were not followed of course. Other than that, I would recommend DBAN (Darik's Boot and Nuke). http://www.dban.org/ Applications like http://wipe.sourceforge.net/ or any other program that runs off the same hard drive it's working on (wiping free disk space, etc) are better than nothing at all I suppose. They might help against simple programs like http://www.recuva.com and the like. However, there really aren't much help if used on a journaled file system (Which has tricky ways of storing the data, to boost performance). Which _pretty much_ includes everything but ext2 and FAT. Albeit, here are a couple of examples for *nix besides wipe http://www.jetico.com/bcwipe_unix.htm Do a little googling and you'll find ubuntu install instructions Also, Kgpg (GPG front end for KDE) has a wiping feature and "Shredder" for your desktop. > I now have got my hard drives turned to full disk encryption which is, > like, GREAT! I use the installer routines to get this done. I was unable > (entirely, after spending a week or so trying) to get the servers RAID1 > with full disk encryption; essentially faced with a choice of either RAID1 > *or* full disk encryption. You might have a look at FreeNAS, it's VERY easy to setup full disk encryption in all sorts of RAID configurations. I HIGHLY recommend it for beginners! Literally two clicks, after you've installed it of course. -- David Mitchel OpenPGP key: http://tinyurl.com/85630E3D Fingerprint: 199E 3E07 5FC4 668C 5E7A F11E 5CC2 441B 8563 0E3D We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth... For my part, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst; and to provide for it. -Patrick Henry History is always repeating itself, but each time the price goes up. -(anonymous) "There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.". . . or better yet, government numbers! -Richard Feynman, physicist, Nobel laureate (1918-1988) - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
