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How much wiping do you do? :)
From: dagershman_dgt at dagertech.net (David A. Gershman)
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:14:49 -0700 (PDT)
One pass is enough? Hmmm...anyone tell the DoD? They still require multi-pass wiping.
I sent a simular question to Scott Moulton, but I figured I'd ask in this gorup as well. I always wondered if wiping with more than just all
zeros was
necessary, then I saw this: http://16systems.com/zero.php and this http://www.anti-forensics.com/disk-wiping-one-pass-is-enough So, is it totally useless to wipe a drive more that once? What would
it take
to get the data off of a drive wiped once with all zeros? Also as a side note, Scott sent me a link to this tool awhile back
that uses
some on board stuff of modern drives to wipe even sectors marked as bad by the internal drive logic: http://crystalmark.info/download/index-e.html One more side note: Anyone know how I can wipe my slack space with an arbitrary set of bits? I though it would be funny to but the
lemonparty jpg
all over my slack space for investigators to find :) Thanks much, Adrian
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