Re: Wanted: Secure-delete utility for Linux

Henning P. Schmiedehausen (hps@tanstaafl.de)
30 Dec 1998 09:19:48 +0100

tytso@MIT.EDU (Theodore Y. Ts'o) writes:

>that's not good enough. (Sandblasting the magnetic media off the
>platters --- when you care enough to destroy the very best. :-)

Thats too slow if you're right before a police bust. I know some guys
who ran one of 'those' BBSes in the good old days before the web and
he had all of his disks (the big ones: 60 MB) in his bathtub layered
with thermite.

If the police busts him, then he just wanted to ignite the tub and
data begone...

... no, as far as I know, he never had really to do it. You would have
read of this on the net... ;-)

Kind regards
Henning

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