Re: [ISN] Pentagon Reverses Order to Destroy Old Hard Drives

From: Dave Dittrich (dittrichat_private)
Date: Mon Jun 11 2001 - 16:11:05 PDT

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    > The Pentagon will have to overwrite the hard drives of computers being
> donated or going to the public, which it had done for years before the
> January edict.

For anyone else considering implementing this policy, a co-worker of
mine hacked together a nice bootable-floppy x86/IDE disk wiper he
calls "autoclave".  Its pretty slick, and supports many different
levels of overwriting before zeroing out all the blocks.  (Very nice
to use when re-installing an OS, especially on a honeypot, to avoid
data pollution.)

	http://staff.washington.edu/jdlarios/autoclave/

Have your employees run this before surplusing equipment and
no more sensitive files get sold at rock bottom prices.

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