How much wiping do you do? :)

[prashant3535 at gmail.com (Prashant Mahajan)]

I had wiped a drive using the DBAN tool and one wipe with 0 (zero). After
this i used the Media Tools app to try and see if it can get hold of any of
my data. The Media Tools which costs $499 couldnt even recover the file
names let alone any data.

I had also heard of some contest where they had wiped the drive using dd
with 0 (zero) and had kept a prize of $10k. I havent heard of anyone who
claimed it. Though the prize money might be an issue for it, but unless you
are really paranoid about your data, i think single wipe should be enough.

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 11:05 PM, Matt Hillman <cybereagle at gmail.com> wrote:

> Nice idea tim, but the problem is you'd need some pretty specialist
> equipment to have any chance of seeing things past 1 wipe. I mean, the drive
> sends you a 0 its a 0 unless you can get down with your bas science self and
> find out what the drive doesnt even know.
>
> Maybe this is a thing to get bret and ovie in on...
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Tim Krabec <tkrabec at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Let's do a test, and end speculation.  Let's get a few "junk" drives, have
> > a few people wipe them, using some paranoid/non paranoid techniques,
> >
> > then send the drives to some one else who will put on a few specific
> > files, a few word & excel docs, photos, a fake quickbooks files, some OS
> > files, what ever, wipe the drives using a series of techniques 1 with the
> > single pass, one with a multi over write, etc
> >
> > then send the drive to people like me, or other volunteers who will then
> > try to recover the data, I'd recommend using different software.  Then we'll
> > post the results.
> >
> > Something just does not feel right about a single over write.
> >
> > --
> > Tim Krabec
> > Kracomp
> > 772-597-2349
> > smbminute.com
> > kracomp.blogspot.com
> > www.kracomp.com
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Pauldotcom mailing list
> > Pauldotcom at mail.pauldotcom.com
> > http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom
> > Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Pauldotcom mailing list
> Pauldotcom at mail.pauldotcom.com
> http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom
> Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com



-- 
With Regards,

Prashant

Pain is the price you pay for resisting life.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mail.pauldotcom.com/pipermail/pauldotcom/attachments/20090417/c12d835c/attachment.htm