Fred Smith wrote:
On Mon, Apr 02, 2018 at 05:29:13PM +0100, Phil Dobbin wrote:
On 02/04/18 15:09, wwp wrote:
Hello,
On Mon, 2 Apr 2018 10:01:56 -0400 m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote:
Good evening from Singapore!
The foremost question which I want to ask is, what is the universal (world wide) understanding behind degaussing hard drives?
I work for No Secrets Agency (NSA) Pte Ltd (fictitious company name used). My sales manager Edward Joseph Snowden (fictitious individual name used) had *promised* our customer Leave Me in the Lurch (S) Pte Ltd (fictitious company name used) that we would "DEGAUSS" their
hard
disks after the PC replacement and data migration exercise for 15 trillion PCs (fictitious number used).
PC = Personal Computer, which includes desktops and laptops
<snip> A little too much other info, and overly eloquent. However, if your company told the client that you were going to deGauss all the h/d,
that's
what you need to do, contractually.
If they've had a second discussion, and only want the data deleted,
that's
another story.
Is the data on a different partition than the o/s (i.e., /data? If
so, you
can easily wipe the data, using say, shred, or DBAN (which offers
both
3-pass and the full 7-pass DoD 5220.22-M). If it's in the same
partition,
and the same filesystem, you've got other issues. How do you
*guarantee*
that there's no user data - say, installed third-party software mixed
with
the o/s?
Note that you really do have to make any third-party software, if
it's
commercial, Go Away.
Note that the original message has also been sent to the fedora users mailing list, no doubt it's spam now.
this message turned up on ubuntu users as well.
which explains why I'm NOT going to view the attached file. You neer know what is in it.
Perhaps, then, the poster needs their head deGaussed....
mark