Re: Best program to fully wipe hard drive

From: chris@nospam.com
Date: 12/12/02 

From: chris@nospam.com
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 20:15:01 -0800

On Mon, 9 Dec 2002 09:29:33 +0000 (UTC), "mh"
<mark756hayward@hg11.btinternet.com> wrote:

>gov standard now use one of the following:
>Blancco or BCWipe
>no longer 7 formats but just 3
>1 = all 0's
>2 = all 1's
>3 = random

Of course most people don't bother to read the read of the DOD
standard which requires physical destruction before deeming a disk
scrubbed. Most of the software claim the DOD standards because the
meet the requirements for scrubbing a disk that is to be reused within
the same classification level.

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