full-disclosure - Erasing a hard disk easily

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From: aditya.deshmukh at online.gateway.technolabs.net (Aditya, ALD [ Aditya Lalit Deshmukh ])
Subject: Erasing a hard disk easily

> 
> I'm guessing that drilling a hole in the case, pouring in some sand and firing up the disk would probably do a good job of rendering the data non-readable too  ;>

since the original poster only wanted to clean up the harddisk for donations so that no one can read the disks I think the Linux approach is the best one 


dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hd? ; dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/hd?

use this for 5 times and it is out of the reach for most of the geeks, as for the nsa they wont waste their time on harddisks like these, they have better work to do like going after suspected terrorists and keeping a watch on foreign powers

-aditya
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