computer forensics question

[Kenneth]

> It recommends using the DataEraser software to do the secure delete.   
> The appendix says that the recommended overwrite to satisfy DoD  
> requirement is a Triple Pass with 0x00.

IIRC, the GnuPG software overwrites a file 30 times if you tell it to shred. 
Could be faulty memory, but that's what I was thinking I remembered.

> 
> After that is done, though, you must take the drive into a "suitable  
> facility with individuals wearing appropriate safety equipment" and  
> physically destroy it.  They recommend using a sledgehammer or  
> drilling a series of 1/4 in holes through the platters.
> 

If I was worried about it, I wouldn't be satisfied with holes drilled into
the platter.  That leave sections of the disk where some data could still be
retrieved.




		
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