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I'm in the process of building some computers from used equipment
and (possibly) putting these out to customers (they'll know it's
used so there's no ethical problem here.)
My problem is I'd like to make sure the old customer's data is
off of the hard drive to avoid the embarassing CIA/FBI type
problems (failure to remove classified data.)
How would you suggest I ensure the data is gone? I thought of
installing the drive on Secondary IDE as master and issue the
command:
# dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/hdc
Somehow, I figure that won't "erase" the data like "shred"
or a PGP "wipe" command. What utilities are available in Linux
for this type of task.
TIA
Eric
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# Eric Lucas
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Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a
contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is
wrong.
-- Ayn Rand, "Atlas Shrugged"
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