hacked by the (alleged) `amazon-security' scammers

[MR]

On Fri, Nov 26, 2021 at 6:18 AM Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
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> DBAN, sadly, is commercial now. I posted an alternative to it earlier
> in this thread, but I did not want to repeat myself.

I looked back and this is the first message that mentions DBAN on this thread.

According to its website, DBAN is still free, but it has red Xs in all
the boxes except a few, and no guarantee of erasure.

How is shred not a simpler, free and readily available alternative
that comes with most (all?) distros?

Just curious...

Mark