speeding up hard drive wipe

[Chris Green]

On Sat, Sep 26, 2020 at 06:40:07PM -0300, J. Paul Bissonnette wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Sep 2020 21:56:41 +0100
> Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Sep 26, 2020 at 04:56:39PM -0300, J. Paul Bissonnette wrote:
> > > On Sat, 26 Sep 2020 16:24:25 +0100
> > > Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> > >   
> > > > On Sat, Sep 26, 2020 at 12:10:45PM -0300, J. Paul Bissonnette
> > > > wrote:  
> > > > > On Sat, 26 Sep 2020 13:48:58 +0100
> > > > > Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> > > > >      
> > > > > > I absolutely agree.  I think people have a rather inflated
> > > > > > idea of how valuable their 'information' is! :-)  Even a disk
> > > > > > full of deleted (by the OS) files will take a huge amount of
> > > > > > time to extract anything useful from.
> > > > > >     
> > > > > If one is paranoid about data security take a look at the so
> > > > > called smart phone you use. Everything you do and say can be
> > > > > traced on an iPhone or Android.
> > > > >     
> > > > I don't use a smartphone, partly for the above reason.  
> > > 
> > > Even the one time "secure" Blackberry is using Ad-droid
> > >   
> > Yes, but if I don't put any information onto the phone then there's
> > nothing there for anyone to extract.  There's not even my location
> > because most of the time I don't have the phone with me!
> > 
> Might work if the sim card is out and the battery removed. I had info
> from a person working in search & recuse that claims that your
> location can be triangulated even when the phone is turned off. 
> Then this is way off topic from wiping a HDD.
> 
??  If I don't have the phone with me it can't tell anyone where I am
can it!  It's at home, I'm out in the countryside somewhere, for me
that's the normal situation, I really have no need for a mobile phone
most of the time.

-- 
Chris Green