wipe /dev/sda

[Joep L. Blom]

Neil Aggarwal wrote:
> Florian:
> 
>>> http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/secure_del.html
>> Note that this paper is 13 years old and the technology used by hard
>> discs has changed since that quite a bit.
> 
> The author addresses that in his Further Epilogue:
> 
> 	This is why I've never updated my paper (I've had a number of 
> 	requests), there doesn't seem to be much more to be said about 
> 	the topic. 
> 
> So, basically, he says it was not a big deal then and it is even
> less of a big deal now.
> 
> 	Neil
> 
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> 
The best way is to use a reasonably strong electromagnet and sweep it 
over the disk. In the old days we did it to wipe magnetic tapes. If you 
were unlucky you destroyed a disk in the neighbourhood.
Joep