Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/11/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You could easily download a live distro of any one of the Linux flavors and they all come with a disk partition program. There you could set a new label, format and partition the full drive which would make it extraordinarily difficult for anyone excepting the aforementioned agencies, to recover any data. Then again, it IS fall, so it's the season for shooting. You could tape the physical platters to skeet and take them to the skeet/trap range... Phil Forrest On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 19:01:43 -0600 Ken Carney <kcarney1 at cox.net> wrote: > Please don't tell me I am compromised with the sledgehammer/.44 > magnum approach, else I will have to find a higher level. > > Ken > > On 11/23/2011 6:53 PM, Spencer Cheng wrote: > > There should be disk erase program on Windows which will zero out > > every byte on the HDD. Mac OS X built-in disk utility can erase > > every bit. Runs pretty slowly on larger disks. > > > > Unless you have some data which one of the TLA (NSA, GCHQ, CSE,..) > > agencies really want, something like the above should be good > > enough. :) If the TLA's wants your data, nothing you can do will > > prevent them from getting a copy. > > > > Regards, > > Spencer > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information