[ale] dban??

[brian at polibyte.com (Brian Pitts)]

Geoffrey wrote:
> Okay, so I'm cleaning up some old hardware before getting rid of it. 
> Anyone care to comment on dban or other solutions for erasing the hard 
> drives?  I don't want to destroy the hardware, just erase the data.  I'm 
> not concerned with what the usual government 3 letter organizations can 
> do, just your average cracker out in the wild.


I think for your average cracker one pass of dd if=/dev/urandom is
sufficient.

All the best,
Brian Pitts