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-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [<a  rel="nofollow" href="mailto:ale-bounces";>mailto:ale-bounces</a> at ale.org] On Behalf Of
alelist at christopherrussell.net
Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 7:22 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: [ale] Nuking a drive

Matthew-

As per Geoff and Greg,

I have first-hand experience of organizations whose POLICY is to retain the
drive.

Chris

&gt; Actually, the 3 letter orgs shred their drives (just like a wood 
&gt; chipper, but for HD's).
&gt; 
&gt; Greg
&gt; 
&gt; &gt; -----Original Message-----
&gt; &gt; From: ale-bounces at ale.org [<a  rel="nofollow" href="mailto:ale-bounces";>mailto:ale-bounces</a> at ale.org]On Behalf Of 
&gt; &gt; Geoffrey
&gt; &gt; Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 2:22 PM
&gt; &gt; To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
&gt; &gt; Subject: Re: [ale] Nuking a drive
&gt; &gt;
&gt; &gt;
&gt; &gt; Matthew Brown wrote:
&gt; &gt; &gt; I am returning two Dell servers thta have served me well.  It's
&gt; &gt; End-of-Lease
&gt; &gt; &gt; time.
&gt; &gt; &gt;
&gt; &gt; &gt; Anyone know the best quick way to nuke a drive to make all its 
&gt; &gt; &gt; contents unrecoverable?
&gt; &gt;
&gt; &gt; Depends on the extent of your paranoia.  Boot with a rescue 
&gt; &gt; disk/floppy, then reformat the drives, write nulls to them, filling 
&gt; &gt; them up, then reformat the drives..
&gt; &gt;
&gt; &gt; Worried about three letter organizations?  Don't return the drives...
&gt; &gt;
&gt; &gt; --
&gt; &gt; Until later, Geoffrey                     Registered Linux User #108567
&gt; &gt; Building secure systems in spite of Microsoft 
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