secure data erasing

[Alvin Oga]

hi ya jim

On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Jim Kavitsky wrote:

> 
> Hi, Alvin. Are you going to be retaining possession of the disks, or do
> they have to go off site? I'm also curious as to why software erasure is
> not an option. 

not my choice ( yet )

they want degaussing for whatever reason ... :-)

> Is it a matter of being too labor intensive for the
> number of devices that you have? The DoD has published data erasure
> standards for classified hard drives that specify bit patterns and
> number of passes required to eliminate residual data traces. Several of
> the software vendors out there claim to be DoD compliant, including this
> one:
> 
> http://www.eraseyourharddrive.com

it doesn't need to be dod compliant

and if i was using sw to erase it, i'd just use dd if=/dev/random and loop
it 10x or something

c ya
alvin