I don't believe you actually *can* erase data. It's my understanding that (a) even the best "erasing" programs only overwrite the data repeatedly so as to make the data unrecoverable, and (b) hard drives once used for SuperSekret data storage are shredded, not "erased."
I've seen the monster paper shredders (actually, I think it was a paper pulper, technically) used to destroy TS and higher classified material. I can only imagine the machine it would take to shred the disk portion of a hard drive.
And WRT missing a place you've never been...isn't that what we do every day we write? *g*
It took 48 hours of over-writing the data set three times with 0's to get it to the point that I'm ready to send it out to the folks at LaCie for repair/replacement. It is sometimes amazing to me that it will take less than an hour to put it all back on the machine once it's back at the house. Shredding documents: The previous recommendation was to have diagonal cuts. The latest is to literally shred - as in tear in a big drum that has air stirring the shreds up. Some shredding services will incinerate the shreds on site with some fairly sophisticated mobile smoke recovery on board the truck.
What did I use to erase:?docdad2June 25 2008, 03:00:27 UTC
I used the "Leopard" "Secure Empty Trash." I was told that it wrote "0" to the data site three times and then moved on to the next. I hope I had that right. If not - well the folks at LaCie have my "Time Machine" backup. I was also told that "Time Machine" backups are also password protected - not that it will keep a determined hacker from finding things out. I hope that I did the right thing Gotta let go sometime (sigh). Smiles (kinda/sorta) for self - kinda D
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I've seen the monster paper shredders (actually, I think it was a paper pulper, technically) used to destroy TS and higher classified material. I can only imagine the machine it would take to shred the disk portion of a hard drive.
And WRT missing a place you've never been...isn't that what we do every day we write? *g*
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Shredding documents: The previous recommendation was to have diagonal cuts. The latest is to literally shred - as in tear in a big drum that has air stirring the shreds up. Some shredding services will incinerate the shreds on site with some fairly sophisticated mobile smoke recovery on board the truck.
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Love,
Christopher
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Sigh
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I hope that I did the right thing
Gotta let go sometime (sigh).
Smiles (kinda/sorta) for self - kinda
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