[ale] Wiping hard drives revisited...

Greg Freemyer greg.freemyer at gmail.com
Sat Jan 17 14:01:04 EST 2009


I know one of the 3 guys who wrote the paper / did the work.

I trust it.

Also NIST officially says a one pass wipe is sufficient for 20 GB and
larger disks.  They base that on a NSA study.  I tried to get a copy
of the NSA study, but it seems to be unavailable to the general
public.

Now SSDs are a different story.  I think an incinerator might be the
best choice.

Greg

On 1/17/09, Jim Popovitch <yahoo at jimpop.com> wrote:
> 2009/1/17 Michael H. Warfield <mhw at wittsend.com>:
>>        Single drive wipe protects data, research finds
>>        http://www.securityfocus.com/brief/888
>
> Also consider that information such as that could be being floated
> around in order to preserve more data and make people think less of
> destroying sensitive information.  ;-)
>
> -Jim P.
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