Wiping Out Data

[Adam Funk]

On 2007-03-16, Stephen R Laniel wrote:

> The canonical answer here is Darik's Boot and Nuke:
>
> http://dban.sourceforge.net/
>
> Burn a small file to a CD, reboot from that CD, and voila:
> it'll wipe the hard drives you tell it to wipe. Its design
> goal seems to be: help the user wipe out data when there's
> an emergency. I believe it can be set to wipe data off every
> hard drive it finds.

I used this a few months ago and noticed that DBAN takes a very long
time to run.  So I'm not sure about "an emergency" --- unless you use
the quick mode right away and the more secure mode while $CONSPIRATORS
are trying to break the door down.