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Monday, 20 February 2012 13:06 |
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How To Securely Destroy/Wipe Data On Hard Drives With shred
Sometimes you need to destroy or wipe data from hard drives (for
example, before you sell your old hard drives on eBay) so that nobody
else can access them. Simply deleting data (e.g. with rm) is not enough
because that just removes the file system pointer, but not the data, so
it can easily be undeleted with recovery software. Even zero'ing out
your hard drive might not be enough. Here's where shred comes into play -
shred can overwrite the files and partitions repeatedly, in order to
make it harder for even very expensive hardware probing to recover the
data. Read more: |
