How to erase Linux?

Gabriel Dragffy dragffy at yandex.ru
Tue Mar 6 15:36:27 UTC 2007


MJang wrote:
> The "shred" command overwrites your drive a bunch of times (25, by
> default), and I'm guessing would protect your data from everyone but
> government intelligence agencies such as the NSA.
> 
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
> 

How how would even the NSA recover meaningful data after 25 re-writes, 
voodoo magic? :P




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